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HOW THE RED ARMY STOPPED HITLER

Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House: WHEN TITANS CLASHED: HOW THE RED ARMY
STOPPED HITLER

Lawrence, KS: Univ Press of Kansas, 1995. First edition.



>From Publishers Weekly
Until now the Soviet-German conflict of WWII has been told largely from the
German point of view. This authoritative account, based on newly released
Soviet studies, emphasizes the Russian version of events. It reveals, to a
greater degree than previously known, how unprepared the Red Army was and
how the leadership gradually gained in competence during the Moscow and
Stalingrad campaigns. The authors describe how the Werhmacht eventually lost
the ability to conduct a general offensive on a wide front while the Soviets
learned to focus overwhelming force on a narrow front such as the Kursk
salient, where the Red Army finally seized the initiative. The book conveys
the colossal scope and scale of the five-year struggle and puts the military
aspect in a wider perspective, showing, for example, how the Red Army's
defense against the invasion gave the Communist leadership legitimacy.
Glantz is an editor of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies; House teaches
history at Gordon College in Georgia. Photos.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

>From Book News, Inc.
A full account of the Soviet army's triumph over the German army, from the
Soviet perspective. Draws on formerly classified Soviet sources to place the
war within its wider political, economic, and social contexts, and recounts
the offensives and counteroffensives sweeping across a half-million square
miles. Includes b&w photos and maps. For general readers interested in WWII
and Soviet history. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Description
By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions,
the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to the gates of
Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flew
above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that
destroyed the German army and shattered Hitler's imperial designs.

Told in swift stirring prose, When Titans Clashed provides the first full
account of this epic struggle from the Soviet perspective. David Glantz, one
of the world's foremost authorities on the Soviet military, and Jonathan
House present a fundamentally new interpretation of what the Russians called
the "Great Patriotic War." Based on unprecedented access to formerly
classified Soviet sources, they counter the German perspective that has
dominated previous accounts and radically revise our understanding of the
Soviet experience during World War II.

Placing the war within its wider political, economic, and social contexts,
the authors recount how the determined Soviets overcame their initial
disasters to defeat the most powerful army ever assembled. As they vividly
show, this truly was war waged on a titanic scale, sweeping across a
half-million square miles from Moscow to Berlin, featuring monumental
offensives and counteroffensives, and ultimately costing both sides combined
a staggering forty million casualties.

Their work offers new revelations on Soviet strategy and tactics, Stalin's
role as supreme commander of the Red Army, the emergence of innovative and
courageous commanders in the crucible of combat, numerous previously
concealed or neglected military operations, German miscalculations on the
road to the Red capital, the effect of D-Day and the "second front" on the
Soviet effort, and the war's devastating impact on the Soviet economy and
civilian population.

An essential volume for anyone interested in World War II or Soviet history,
When Titans Clashed will change forever how we look at one of the greatest
military confrontations in world history.

This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.

Near Fine with Near Fine jacket. Pages and dust jacket age-darkened.

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