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Stalin's War

Tragedy and Triumph 1941 - 1945

by Edwin P. Hoyt

Book Description

By the time Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Communist dictator Josef Stalin (1879 - 1953) had greatly weakened his country's ability to defend itself. Its armed forces had been debilitated by years of brutal purges, show trials, executions, and instability.

Prior to and in the early days of the Nazi onslaught, the Soviet premier compounded his errors. Stalin's 1939 non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler contributed crucial resources that aided Germany's conquest of Europe and its attack against the Soviet Union. Despite advance warnings of the impending invasion, Stalin refused to believe reports or to authorize measures that would have mitigated the scope of the Soviet disaster. Stalin continued obstinately to insist on premature counterattacks using untrained, poorly equipped soldiers a policy that resulted in the decimation of Soviet armies and in the death and capture of millions.

Eventually, the grandiosity of Hitler's ambitions and Stalin's own shrewd ability to learn from his mistakes turned the tide. Stalin's public persona, though created and fueled by propaganda, nonetheless helped him to become, in the eyes of thousands of ordinary Soviets, the embodiment of Russian defiance and determination. His decision to remain in Moscow when German forces were only sixteen miles from the Kremlin added to this image.

Stalin involved himself in every aspect of the war effort, including its smallest details, and Stalin's War is the first book to examine the Nazi invasion from the perspective of the Soviet premier himself, as well as from the viewpoints of his leading commanders, including Zhukov, Chuikov, and Rokossovsky. Accessible and compelling, this work brings to life in all its awesome grandeur and minute human misery what the Russians call the "Great Patriotic War." Historian and former soldier Edwin P. Hoyt details Stalin's military strategies to defeat Germany and his struggles to expand his Soviet empire. Here is the savage 900 day siege of Leningrad; the vicious street-to-street, building-to-building fighting of Stalingrad; the titanic clash at Kursk (the largest tank battle ever fought); the drive across Eastern Europe to the borders of Germany; the triumphant capture of Berlin, the Nazi capital; and the postwar Soviet creation of Communist puppet regimes in Eastern Europe.

About the Author

Edwin P. Hoyt lives in Tokyo, Japan, and is author of Warlord: Tojo against the World, Inferno: The Firebombing of Japan, Guadalcanal, ant The Invasion before Normandy.

The First Book to Examine the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union from the Perspective of Brutal Dictator Josef Stalin!

"Need to read with Stalin's Folly to get the full picture." - Michael Kelly, PzG Inc. President

BK083 - Stalin's War Tragedy and Triumph 1941 - 1945

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Details: Hardcover, 292 pages, approximate size 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 inches, English text.

$20.00 +s/h