The Red Army and the Second World War
In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations w...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2017.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Armies of the Second World War. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47410425*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Of horses and men: the Red Army of the late 1920s
- Tanks, aircraft and deep battle: the Red Army transformed 1928-1936
- The enemy within: the Red Army during and in the aftermath of the great purges, 1937-1940
- More than manoueuvres: Red Army experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan
- Khalkin Gol
- Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: Soviet military equipment and the small wars of the 1930s
- Voroshilov's lightning war: the Soviet invasion of Poland
- The Finnish debacle
- Reform and the road to war
- Barbarossa: from Minsk to Smolensk
- Barbarossa: from Smolensk to Moscow
- The end of Typhoon
- Lost opportunity
- More men, women and machines
- Not a step back!
- Change at the top
- Stalingrad and Uranus
- The wrath of the Gods
- The defence of the Kursk salient and the battle for Prokhorovka
- To the Dnepr and beyond
- The ten Stalinist blows of 1944
- The end in sight
- The fall of Berlin and the end of the reich
- Conclusion.
