Russia at war, 1941-1945.
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| Author / Creator: | Werth, Alexander, 1901-1969 |
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| Edition: | 2nd Carroll & Graf ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Carroll & Graf, 2000. |
| Description: | xxv, 1100 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4233428 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Prelude to War. I. Russia's 1939 Dilemma. II. The Soviet-German Pact. III. The Partition of Poland. IV. From the Finnish War to the German Invasion of France. V. Russia and the Fall of France - Baltic States and Bessarabia. VI. Russia and the Battle of Britain: a Psychological Turning-Point? VII. Display of Russian Military Might - Molotov's Tragi-comic Visit to Berlin. VIII. "1941 - it will be a Happy New Year" IX. The Last Weeks of Peace
- Pt. 2. From the Invasion to the Battle of Moscow. I. Soviet Unpreparedness in June 1941. II. The Invasion. III. Molotov and Stalin Speak. IV. Smolensk: the First Check to the Blitzkrieg. V. Close-Up One: Moscow at the Beginning of the War. VI. Close-Up Two: Autumn Journey to the Smolensk Front. VII. Advance on Leningrad. VIII. Rout in the Ukraine: "Khrusbchev versus Stalin" IX. The Evacuation of Industry. X. Battle of Moscow Begins - The October 16 Panic. XI. Battle of Moscow II. Stalin's Holy Russia Speech. XII. The Moscow Counter-Offensive. XIII. The Diplomatic Scene of the First Months of the Invasion
- Pt. 3. The Leningrad Story. I. The Dead of Leningrad. II. The Enemy Advances. III. Three Million Trapped. IV. The Ladoga Lifeline. V. The Great Famine. VI. The Ice Road. VII. Leningrad Close-Up. VIII. Why Leningrad "Took It" IX. A Note on Finland
- Pt. 4. The Black Summer of 1942. I. Close-up: Moscow in June 1942. II. The Anglo-Soviet Alliance. III. Three Russian Defeats: Kerch, Kharkov and Sebastopol. IV. The Renewal of the German Advance. V. Patrie-en-Danger and the Post-Rostov Reforms. VI. Stalin Ropes in the Church
- Pt. 5. Stalingrad. I. Stalingrad: the Chuikov Story. II. The "Stalingrad" months in Moscow - the Churchill visit and after. III. Russians encircle the Germans at Stalingrad. IV. Stalingrad Close-Ups. I: The Stalingrad Lifeline. IV. Stalingrad Close-Ups. II: The Scene of the Manstein Rout. V. Stalingrad: the Agony. VI. Close-Up III: Stalingrad at the Time of the Capitulation. VII. "Caucasus Round Trip"
- Pt. 6. 1943: Year of Hard Victories - the Polish Tangle. I. The Birth of "Stalin's Military Genius" II. The Germans and the Ukraine. III. Kharkov under the Germans. IV. The Economic Effort of 1942-3 - the Red Army's New Look - Lend-Lease. V. Before the Spring Lull of 1943 - Stalin's Warning. VI. The Technique of Building a New Poland. VII. The Dissolution of the Comintern and Other Curious Events in the Spring of 1943. VIII. Kursk: Hitler Loses His Last Chance of Turning the Tide. IX. Orel: Close-Up of a Purely Russian City under the Germans. X. A Short Chapter on a Vast Subject: German Crimes in the Soviet Union. XI. The Partisans in the Soviet-German War. XII. Paradoxes of Soviet Foreign Policy in 1943 - The Fall of Mussolini - The "Free German Committee" XIII. Stalin's Little Nationalist Orgy after Kursk. XIV. The Spirit of Teheran
- Pt. 7. 1944: Russia Enters Eastern Europe. I. Some Characteristics of 1944. II. Close-Up I: Ukrainian Microcosm. III. Close-Up II: Odessa, Capital of Rumanian Transniestria. IV. Close-Up III: Hitler's Crimean Catastrophe. V. The Lull Before D-Day - Stalin's Flirtation with the Catholic Church - "Slav Unity" VI. The Russians and the Normandy Landing. VII. German Rout in Belorussia: "Worse than Stalingrad" VIII. What Happened at Warsaw? IX. Close-Up: Lublin - the Maidanek Murder Camp. X. Rumania, Finland and Bulgaria Pack Up. XI. Churchill's Second Moscow Visit. XII. Stalin's Horse-Trading with de Gaulle. XIII. Alternative Policies and Ideologies towards the End of the War
- Pt. 8. Victory - and the Seeds of the Cold War. I. Into Germany. II. Yalta and After. III. June, 1945: Berlin Under the Russians Only. IV. The Three Months' Peace. V. Potsdam. VI. The Short Russo-Japanese War - Hiroshima.