The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the
casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a key
element in any assessment of the conflict on the Eastern Front.
Since the war ended over seventy years ago, the statistics have
been a source of bitter controversy, of claim and counter-claim, as
each generation of historians has struggled to uncover the truth.
This contentious issue is the subject of this absorbing book. The
figures reveal much about the way the war was fought, and they
demonstrate the enormous human price the Soviet Union paid for its
victory. That is why the statistics have been so strongly
contested. Distortion and falsification by official historians have
obscured the facts because the issue has been so heavily
politicized. Using recently declassified information from the
Russian archives, the authors focus in forensic detail on the way
the figures were recorded and compiled and seek to explain why, so
many years after the war, the full truth about the subject is still
far from our reach.
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