This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of…
"The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front - Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk - are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts. Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st…
"In three years of war on the Eastern Front -- from the desperate defence of Moscow, through the epic struggles at Stalingrad and Kursk to the final offensives in central Europe -- artilleryman Petr Mikhin experienced the full horror of battle. In this vivid memoir, he recalls d…
"In three years of war on the Eastern Front -- from the desperate defence of Moscow, through the epic struggles at Stalingrad and Kursk to the final offensives in central Europe -- artilleryman Petr Mikhin experienced the full horror of battle. In this vivid memoir, he recalls d…