Stalin's folly
Subtitle: the tragic first ten days of World War II on the Eastern front
By: Constantine Pleshakov.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front
Description: Reassessing the Soviet response to the Nazi invasion of Russia, the author portrays Stalin as an ineffective military leader who allowed hundreds of thousands of his soldiers to be slaughtered in the first ten days of the invasion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-311) and index.