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Author Axell, Albert.

Title Russia's heroes / Albert Axell.

Imprint New York : Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Reference 2nd Floor Stacks  940.54217 Ax22r 2001 c.2  ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  940.54217 Ax22r 2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Description xv, 264 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252) and index.
Contents Prologue : the Russians -- Barbarossa to Berlin -- The hero fortress -- Shopping in Berlin -- The night witch -- Stalin's son -- Zoya's execution -- The blockade of Leningrad -- The snipers -- Rammers over Moscow -- The cossacks -- The Siberians -- A hundred Jewish generals -- Cabbage soup in Hell -- Endurance -- The pilot who crawled -- The thirteenth commandment -- Tracking the Tirpitz -- Cemetery under the Barents Sea -- Waltzing with the queen -- "The wounded won the war" -- The high cost of victory.
Summary "Story of the ordinary and extraordinary men and women soldiers of Russia; the snipers who engaged in duels in No Man's Land; Cossack cavalry regiments crossing the ice at night to raid ammunition dumps; pilots out of ammunition using their propellers to cut off the tailplanes of enemy aircraft, soldiers who fought in an insane, giant conflict, the largest theatre of war the world has ever seen in which 27 million died."--Jacket.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944.
German Occupation of Soviet Union (1941-1944) (OCoLC)fst01353185
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945)) (OCoLC)fst01900002
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Chronological Term 1939 - 1945
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0786708565
9780786708567

 
    
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