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The Red Army and the Second World War
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In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Military Ranks
- Introduction
- 1 Of Horses and Men: The Red Army of the Late 1920s
- 2 Tanks, Aircraft and ‘Deep Battle’: The Red Army Transformed 1928-1936
- 3 The ‘Enemy’ within: The Red Army during and in the Aftermath of the Great Purges, 1937-1940
- 4 More than Manoeuvres: Red Army Experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan
- 5 Khalkhin Gol
- 6 Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: Soviet Military Equipment and the Small Wars of the 1930s
- 7 Voroshilov’s ‘Lightning’ War: The Soviet Invasion of Poland
- 8 The Finnish Debacle
- 9 Reform and the Road to War
- 10 ‘Barbarossa’: From Minsk to Smolensk
- 11 ‘Barbarossa’: From Smolensk to Moscow
- 12 The End of ‘Typhoon’
- 13 Lost Opportunity
- 14 More Men, Women and Machines
- 15 ‘‘Not a step back!’’
- 16 Change at the Top
- 17 Stalingrad and ‘Uranus’
- 18 The Wrath of the Gods
- 19 The Defence of the Kursk Salient and the Battle for Prokhorovka
- 20 To the Dnepr and Beyond
- 21 The Ten ‘Stalinist’ Blows of 1944
- 22 The End in Sight
- 23 The Fall of Berlin and the End of the Reich
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix 1: The Destruction of the Upper Echelons of the RKKA in 1937-1941
- Appendix 2: Soviet Armoured Strength and Serviceability in the Western Military Districts of the Soviet Union as of 1 June 194
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index