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When Titans Clashed - How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Hardcover, Revised and Expanded Edition)
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When Titans Clashed - How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Hardcover, Revised and Expanded Edition)
Series: Modern War Studies
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On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account
of Soviet Russia's clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our
understanding of World War II on Germany's Eastern Front,
immediately earning its place among top-shelf histories of the
world war. Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and
Western scholarship on the subject, much of it the authors' own
work, this new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as
a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet
Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of
the greatest military confrontations of all time. In 1941, when
Pearl Harbor shattered America's peacetime pretensions, the German
blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to Moscow. Yet,
less than four years later, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flew above
the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that
destroyed the Germany Army and put an end to Hitler's imperial
designs. In swift and stirring prose, When Titans Clash provides
the clearest, most complete account of this epic struggle,
especially from the Soviet perspective. Drawing on the massive and
unprecedented release of Soviet archival documents in recent
decades, David Glantz, one of the world's foremost authorities on
the Soviet military, and noted military historian Jonathan House
expand and elaborate our picture of the Soviet war effort-a picture
sharply different from accounts that emphasize Hitler's failed
leadership over Soviet strategy and might. Rafts of newly available
official directives, orders, and reports reveal the true nature and
extraordinary scale of Soviet military operations as they swept
across the one thousand miles from Moscow to Berlin, featuring
stubborn defenses and monumental offensives and counteroffensives
and ultimately costing the two sides combined a staggering twenty
million casualties. Placing the war within its wider context, the
authors also make use of recent revelations to clarify further the
political, economic, and social issues that influenced and
reflected what happened on the battlefield. Their work gives us new
insight into Stalin's political motivation and Adolf Hitler's role
as warlord, as well as a better understanding of the human and
economic costs of the war-for both the Soviet Union and Germany.
While incorporating a wealth of new information, When Titans
Clashed remains remarkably compact, a tribute to the authors'
determination to make this critical chapter in world history as
accessible as it is essential.
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