| Edition |
Book Club ed. |
| Description |
496 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Previously published: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1977. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Russians and the Third Reich -- Russian prisoners in British captivity: the controversy opens -- The 'Tolstoy' Conference: Eden in Moscow -- British and American agreement at Yalta -- The Allied Forces Act: the Foreign Office versus the law -- From paradise to purgatory -- The Cossacks and the conference -- From Lienz to the Lubianka: the Cossack officers return home -- The end of the Cossack nation -- The Fifteenth Cossack Cavalry Corps -- Interlude: an unsolved mystery -- The end of General Vlasov -- Mass repatriations in Italy, Germany, and Norway -- The soldiers resist -- The final operations -- National contrasts: repatriation pressures in France, Sweden and Liechtenstein -- Soviet moves and motives -- Legal factors and reasons of state -- Postscript: the suppressed evidence. |
| Summary |
Reveals the Allies' complicity in the forced return, at the close of World War II, of two million Russian slave laborers, prisoners of war, and anti-Communists from German territory to nightmarish prison camps in the Soviet Arctic. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
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| ISBN |
9781605983622 |
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1605983624 |
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