What Stalin knew : the enigma of Barbarossa /
This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stalins thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder.If, after the war, the Soviet Union had somehow been capable of producing an official...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2005]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stalins thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder.If, after the war, the Soviet Union had somehow been capable of producing an official inquiry into the catastrophe of 6/22comparable in its mandate to the 9/11 commission hereits report might have read a little like [this book]. . . . Murphy brings to his subject both knowledge of Russian history and an insiders grasp of how intelligence is gathered, analyzed and usedor not.Niall Ferguson, New York Times Book ReviewA fascinating and meticulously researched account of mistaken assumptions and errors of judgment that culminated in Hitlers invasion of Russia in June 1941. Never before has this fateful period been so fully documented.Henry A. Kissinger. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-299) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300130263 0300130260 128172226X 9781281722263 9786611722265 6611722262 |