Russia's life-saver
Subtitle: lend-lease aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II
By: Albert L. Weeks.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Lend-lease operations (1941-1945); World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Military relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Military relations -- United States
Description: "The United States shipped more than $12 billion in lend-lease aid to Stalin's Russia during World War II. Materials lent, beginning in late 1941 before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, included airplanes and tanks, locomotives and rails, construction materials, entire military production assembly lines, food and clothing, aviation fuel, and much else. Lend-lease is now recognized by post-Soviet Russian historians as essential to the Soviet war effort. Wielding many facts and statistics never before published in the United States, Albert L. Weeks keenly analyzes the diplomatic rationale for and results of this assistance"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-164) and index.