Russia's Heroes 1941-1945: True Stories Of The Soviet Patriots Who Defied Hitler By Albert Axell
Russia's Heroes 1941-1945: True Stories Of The Soviet Patriots Who Defied Hitler By Albert Axell
Softcover
ISBN 9781849015783
Publisher: Magpie Books 2010
Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. The wraps are slightly shelf rubbed with very slight knocking at the back. The blocks have some minor marks. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.
The true story of Russian courage and sacrifice in World War II. When Hitler invaded Russia on 22nd June 1941, the Eastern front opened and with one voice military experts around the world predicted the swift annihilation of the Soviet armies. Nazi Germany threw men and equipment against Russia in unprecedented numbers: a total of five million men took part in the blitz attack along the entire Russian frontier. Using interviews and primary evidence collected in Russia, much of it never previously published, Albert Axell tells the story of the Eastern Front as it unfolds interweaving his accounts of the ordinary and extraordinary men and women soldiers of Russia with the progress of the war itself. The book is both a history and a tale of courage and endurance; unbelievable heroism combined with an implacable refusal to admit defeat, whatever the odds. Contents: List of Maps & Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note to Readers; Preface; Maps; Prologue: The Russians; 1. Barbarossa to Berlin; 2. The Hero Fortress; 3. Shopping in Berlin; 4. The Night Witch; 5. Stalin's Son; 6. Zoya's Execution; 7. The Blockade of Leningrad; 8. The Snipers; 9. Rammers over Moscow; 10. The Cossacks; 11. The Siberians; 12. A Hundred Jewish Generals; 13. Cabbage Soup in Hell; 14. Endurance; 15. The Pilot who Crawled; 16. The Thirteenth Commandment; 17. Tracking the Tirpitz; 18. Cemetery under the Barents Sea; 19. Waltzing with the Queen; 20. "The Wounded Won the War"; 21. The High Cost of Victory; Select Bibliography; Notes and Sources; Index
