Claws of the Bear
Subtitle: The History of the Red Army from the Revolution to the Present
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Published: July 1989
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780395510766
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The greatest show on earth; title: From tsar to Stalin : by way of war, civil war and Siberia.; title: Red October; title: Flawed titan; title: 1917; title: Trotsky : the prophet armed; title: Kronstadt : assault on the citadel; title: The steel monster; title: Stalinism; title: The great terror : a trench at Khodynka; title: The beneficiaries; title: The winter war; title: Barbarossa : the German War.; title: Can we open fire?; title: Die in Kiev; title: The Taifun blows out; title: I want a child, soon; title: The forge; title: To the Volga; title: The pit; title: To Berlin : citadel at Kursk; title: Perelom and the great pursuit; title: Dosvidania, Ukraine; title: Centre fold; title: The satellites change sides; title: The house of cards; title: To the zoo station; title: Victory's end; title: Plus ca change; title: Curtain fall.; title: A lunch at Lubianka; title: The mouth of the cannon : Khrushchev and the bomb.; title: Armageddon : the bomb; title: Nikita : the rocket man; title: In Uncle Sam's back yard : crisis in Cuba; title: Invasions : the four seasons.; title: Hungarian autumn; title: Berlin summer; title: Prague spring; title: Polish winter; title: Afghanistan : the bear trap; title: The view from the Frunskaya embamnkment : present strength.; title: Red elite; title: The three million; title: Army audit; title: Red navy : blue-water build up; title: Air : floggers, flankers and the wild red yonder; title: Senior service : nuclear attack forces; title: The spies : run silent; title: Warsaw Pact : the uneasy alliance; title: The metal eaters : defence industry; title: The rival general : Secretary Gorbachev; title: Future war.; title: Voyna