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Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia

Door Gabriel Gorodetsky

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#327464-XD21
Titel
Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia
Auteur
Gorodetsky, Gabriel
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1999
ISBN10
0300084595
ISBN13
9780300084597
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, map, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Grand Delusion draws on crucial new documentation to unravel the mystery of Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 and Stalin's enigmatic behaviour on the eve of the attack. Gabriel Gorodetsky challenges both the Russian revisionist view - that Stalin was about to invade Germany when Hitler made a preemptive strike, and the Cold War version popular in the West - that Stalin was simply outwitted. Instead he shows Stalin as rational and level headed - though unscrupulous - pursuing well-defined geopolitical interests, actively negotiating for European peace.
Gorodetsky bases his argument on the most thorough scrutiny ever of Soviet archives for the period, including the files of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the General Staff, the security forces, and the entire range of military intelligence
... (Lees verder)available to Stalin on the eve of 'Operation Barbarossa'.
Pagina's
408
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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