Deathride: Deathride - Hardcover

Mosier, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416573488 ISBN 13: 9781416573487

Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2010

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 470 Publisher: Simon & Schuster The German Invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22 1941. Began a war that lasted nearly four years and created by far the bloodiest theater in World War II . In the conventional narrative of this war. Hitler was defeated by Stalin because. like Napoleon. he underestimated the size and resources of his enemy. In fact. says historian John Mosier. Hitler came very close to winning and lost only because of the intervention of the western Allies. Stalin's great triumph was not winning the war. but establishing the prevailing interpretation of the war. The Great Patriotic War. as it is known in Russia. would eventually prove fatal. setting in motion events that would culminate in the collapse of the Soviet Union.Deathride argues that the Soviet losses in World War II were unsustainable and would eventually have led t...

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Review:

""Deathride" is a dramatic departure from the conventional wisdom and is itself a dramatic chronicle of the most brutal theater in the most brutal war in one of history's most brutal centuries. . . . This is a clear-eyed, compelling description of a battle that has been described many times, but seldom with such an ironic eye." --David M. Shribman, "The Boston Globe" "Mr. Mosier [is] one of the more entertainingly contrarian military historians writing today. . . . an important and groundbreaking book about the Eastern front." --Joseph C. Goulden, "The Washington Times"

About the Author:

John Mosier is a professor at Loyola Univer-, New Orleans, and author of several previous works of history, including The Myth of the Great War, The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II and Cross of Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Military Machine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1416573488
• ISBN 13: 9781416573487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496