Thunder in the East - The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945

The battles in Russia played the decisive part in Hitler''s defeat. Gigantic, prolonged, and bloody, they contrasted with the general nature of the fighting on other fronts. The Russians fought on their own in "their" theater of war and with an indepedent strategy. Stalinist Russia was a country radically different from its liberal democratic allies. Hitler and the German high command, for their part, conceived and carried out the Russian campaign as a singular "war of annihilation." This riveting new book is a penetrating, broad-ranging, yet concise overview of this vast conflict. It investigates the Wehrmacht and the Red Army and the command and production systems that organized and sustained them. It considers a range of further themes concerning this most political of wars. Benefiting from a post-Communist, post-Cold War perspective, the book takes advantage of a wealth of new studies and source material that have become available over the last decade. Readers from history buffs to scholars will find something new in this exciting new book.>

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Evan Mawdsley is former Professor of International History at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of December 1941 (2011), World War II: A New History (2009) and The Stalin Years (1998). He is also the General Editor of the three-volume Cambridge History of the Second World War (2015).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Evan Mawdsley, Mawdsley Evan
• Mitarbeit: Hew Strachan (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.11.2015
• EAN: 9781472511669
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1166-9
• Seiten: 536
• Serien: Modern Wars; Modern Wars
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Staatslehre und politische Verwaltung; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, Warfare & defence, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Warfare and defence, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era