Edition |
1st Carroll & Graf ed. |
Description |
xv, 264 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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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.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944.
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German Occupation of Soviet Union (1941-1944) (OCoLC)fst01353185
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945)) (OCoLC)fst01900002
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945
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Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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ISBN |
0786708565 |
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9780786708567 |
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