Stalin's war
Subtitle: tragedy and triumph, 1941-1945
By: Edwin P. Hoyt.
Edition: 1st Cooper Square Pess ed.
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953 -- Military leadership; World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front
Description: "Stalin involved himself in every aspect of the war effort, including its smallest details, and Stalin's War is the first book to examine the Nazi invasion from the perspective of the Soviet premier himself, as well as from the viewpoints of his leading commanders, including Zhukov, Chuikov, and Rokossovsky. Accessible and compelling, this work brings to life - in all its awesome grandeur and minute human misery - what the Russians call the "Great Patriotic War." Historian and former soldier Edwin P.

Hoyt details Stalin's military strategies to defeat Germany and his struggles to expand his Soviet empire. Here is the savage 900-day siege of Leningrad; the vicious street-to-street, building-to-building fighting of Stalingrad; the titanic clash at Kursk (the largest tank battle ever fought); the drive across Eastern Europe to the borders of Germany; the triumphant capture of Berlin, the Nazi capital; and the postwar Soviet creation of Communist puppet regimes in Eastern Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: An unholy alliance; title: The coming storm; title: The German attack; title: The first days of war; title: Blitzkrieg; title: Moscow; title: The first fall guys; title: The German advance; title: Moscow counterattack; title: Bitter spring; title: Stalingrad; title: Spring 1943; title: The battle of Kursk; title: From Kursk to Teheran; title: Russia enters Eastern Europe; title: Rumania; title: Bulgarian adventure; title: Spheres of influence; title: Central Europe; title: On to Berlin; title: Twin juggernauts; title: The race for Berlin; title: The high cost of the Seelow Heights; title: The bear's embrace; title: Chinks in the alliance; title: The iron curtain; title: Stalin's death and the death of Stalinism.