Absolute War

Chris Bellamy

Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN

Publication Date: 20/07/2007

Format: Hardback

An unrivalled portrait of the Great Patriotic War

The war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia was arguably the greatest and most terrible land-air conflict of all time. World authority Professor Chris Bellamy’s seminal account is the result of almost a decade of study.

There have been many individual examinations of particular moments in the vicious war between the Nazi regime and the Soviet behemoth. However, this is the first 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.

Bellamy’s magisterial work benefits from his remarkable insight into strategic issues as well as exhaustive research in hitherto unopened Russian archives. It is the definitive overview of what the Soviets called – and what their 15 successor states still call – the Great Patriotic War.

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