The Soviet partisan movement, 1941-1944
Subtitle: a critical historiographical analysis
By: Leonid D. Grenkevich ; edited and with a foreword by David M. Glantz.
Contributors: Glantz, David M.
Series: Cass series on Soviet (Russian) military experience,; 4
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Soviet Union.; Guerrillas -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.; Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944.
Description: "Nowhere has the role of the partisan been more telling or less understood than during the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War (1941-45) against Nazi Germany. Leonid Grenkevich's book lifts the veil on the shadowy partisan struggle that accompanied the most brutal conflict in the modern era." "Exploiting formerly classified data, the author synthesises new material with existing Western and Soviet open-source literature to paint a vivid mosaic of the greatest partisan struggle in human history: a struggle that helped confound the twentieth century's most vaunted military machine, the German Wehrmacht. In so doing, Grenkevich has provided the essential base for an understanding of the 'People's War' and the curse, or panacea, of partisan/guerrilla war in general."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-358) and index.