The darkness descends - 1917-1937; the hour before midnight -1937-1941; the goths ride east - Barbarossa, 1941; between life and death - Leningrad and Moscow; the fight from within -collaboration, terror and resistance; the cauldron boils -Stalingrad, 1942-43; the citadel - Kursk, 1943; false dawn - 1943-44; fall of the swastika - 1945; the cult of personality - Stalin and the legacy of war; epilogue - Russia's war - myth and reality.
Richard Overy is Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. He is also the author of "The Road to War".
"Penetrating and compassionate..." - The New York Times
"Masterly ... a vivid account"-- Robert Service, Independent
(London)
"A dramatic and exciting tale ... His set-piece descriptions of
such visions of Hell as Stalingrad, the 900-day siege of Leningrad
and the crucial battle of Kursk are as fascinating as they are
horrifying" ― Sunday Times (London)
"Overy is a first-class military historian ... He writes concisely
and says what he means to say ... Now, we have an authoritative
British account that understands both sides, without illusions." --
Norman Stone, Spectator (London)
"Excellent ... Overy tackles this huge, complex and multifaceted
story with the vital gifts of clarity and brevity" -- Antony
Beevor, Literary Review (London)
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