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Allied and Axis commands
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Barbarossa onslaught
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German advance on Russia
historical analysis
military history
Operation Uranus
pre-invasion Soviet Union
Red Army
Second World War
Soviet generals
Soviet war
The Road To Berlin
Product details
- ISBN 9780304365418
- Weight: 485g
- Dimensions: 160 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2003
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first of two volumes in John Erickson's monumental history of the Soviet-German war.
In THE ROAD TO STALINGRAD Professor Erickson takes us in detail from the inept command structures and strategic delusions of the pre-invasion Soviet Union, through the humiliations as her armies fell back on all fronts before the Barbarossa onslaught, until the tide turned at last at Stalingrad. Unsparingly he assesses the generals and political leaders, and analyses the confusions and wranglings within both Allied and Axis commands. The climax, the grinding battle for Stalingrad, leaves the Red Army poised for its majestic counter-offensive, Operation 'Uranus', discovering it had 'caught a tiger by the tail'.
John Erickson was an Honorary Fellow in Defence Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. He was a leading authority on the Soviet-German War and lectured on Soviet-German affairs at the universities of Oxfod, St Andrews and Manchester as well as a number of American universities.
