Stalin's Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War II

by Kenneth Slepyan

When the Wehrmacht rolled into the Soviet Union in World War II, it got more than it bargained for. Notwithstanding the Red Army's retreat, Soviet citizens fought fiercely against German occupiers, engaging in raids, sabotage, and intelligence gathering--largely without any oversight from Stalin and his iron-fisted rule. Kenneth Slepyan provides an enlightening social and political history of the Soviet partisan movement, a people's army of irregulars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061480X
• ISBN13: 9780700614806
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"