Dimensions
160 x 240 x 50mm
There have been many individual accounts of particular moments in the vicious war between the Nazi regime and the Soviet behemoth, but none which sets out to tell the full and dreadful story of that absolute war: absolute because both sides aimed to "exterminate the opponent, to destroy his political existence" and total because it was fought by all elements of society, not simply the armed forces, but civilians - men, women, children - too.
Chris Bellamy is one of the world's leading experts on this subject and has been working on this book for almost a decade. It benefits from his remarkable insight into strategic issues as well as exhaustive research in hitherto unopened Russian archives.
It is the definitive study of what the Soviets called - and their 15 successor states still call - the Great Patriotic War.
