Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century
For a long time the Soviet war information had been far from true,full of propagannda,almost useless for analytical study. This book reveals real figures of casuaties and combat losses of the Red Army through the 20th century showing concrete deta and analysis,in which stand is fair and honest. The editor mentions that in the armed conflict with Japanese Kwanton Army 1939,Soviet human damage was more than that of the Japanese force.I was very impressed this fact.because, until now it is believed widely that Japanese army was defeated landslidedly by superior Soviet army,and Soviet damege was trifle. I hope the war history about the Nomonhan incident will be amended accordingly and I wish to express the utmost appreciation to the editor of this book who enlightens the real figure of the battle. --By Izumi InoueSoviet Casualties and Combat Losses is even more than what the title says. The authors cover personnal losses for all conflicts and include the sick, frostbitten, etc. They also cover equipment losses as the data allows. The strong point is land forces, air force coverage is good, navy a bit weak. (They give some warship classes but no breakdown by major surface types for numbers available and built). I don't give it five stars because as usual with Soviet sources, things don't always match: e.g. the 2 separate sets of losses for various battles and campaigns--and some of the more prominent soviet disasters, e.g. Kharkov in May 1942 are conspicuously absent. Overall well worth getting for what it does have. --By A Customer