Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945

by Evan Mawdsley

Book Overview

The battles in Russia played the decisive part in Hitler's defeat. Gigantic, prolonged, and bloody, they contrasted with the general nature of the fighting on other fronts. The Russians fought on their own in "their" theater of war and with an independent strategy. Stalinist Russia was a country radically different from its liberal democratic allies. Hitler and the German high command, for their part, conceived and carried out the Russian campaign...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034080808X
• ISBN13: 9780340808085
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.3" x 6.5"