This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualit[...]
Provides an introductory history of Soviet foreign policy and international relations from 1945 to the end of the Cold War and the break up of the USSR. The book summarizes historical and political controversies about Soviet foreign policy and brings recent research to bear on these debates. The tex[...]
Victory at Stalingrad tells the gripping strategic and military story of that battle. The hard-won Soviet victory prevented Hitler from waging the Second World War for another ten years and set the Germans on the road to defeat. The Soviet victory also prevented the Nazis from completing the Final S[...]
Widely regarded as the most accomplished general of World War II, the Soviet military legend Marshal Georgy Zhukov at last gets the full-scale biographical treatment he has long deserved.
A man of indomitable will and fierce determination, Georgy Zhukov was the Soviet Union's indispensable comm[...]
This title reassesses Molotov's role in the Cold War, overturning former notions of Molotov as the consummate bureaucrat. It provides a new appreciation of the difficulty of achieving detente between the Soviet Union and the West. It is based on extensive research and the author's access to hundreds[...]
Marshal Georgy Zhukov is one of military history's legendary names. He played a decisive role in the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk that brought down the Nazi regime. He was the first of the Allied generals to enter Berlin and it was he who took the German surrender.He led the huge victory [...]
»Det här är en alldeles utomordentlig biografi över en av andra världskrigets främsta fältherrar en balanserad och väl avvägd skildring av Zjukov som är efterlängtad av svenska historiskt intresserade.« Arvika Nyheter
»En riktigt läsvärd och intressant bok, som berättar e[...]
Georgij Zjukov var en man med okuvlig vilja, briljans och grymhet. Han var en av de mest inflytelserika befälhavarna under andra världskriget och spelade huvudrollen vid flera kritiska vändpunkter i kriget.
Stalins general är den första heltäckande biografin [...]
"Det här är en alldeles utomordentlig biografi över en av andra världskrigets främsta fältherrar." Arvika Nyheter
"En riktigt läsvärd och intressant bok." Dagbladet Sundsvall
Georgij Zjukov var en man med okuvlig vilja, briljans och grymhet. Han var en av de mest inflytelserika b[...]