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Stalin's Commandos: Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front

Categorie	Geschiedenis Oost-Europa
Boeknummer	#411905-YB18
Titel	Stalin's Commandos: Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front
Auteur	Gogun, Alexander
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London/New York : I.B. Tauris
Jaar van uitgave	2016
ISBN10	1784531685
ISBN13	9781784531683
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, dust jacket, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	At the height of World War II, a large number of Soviet partisans fought on the Eastern Front against the Axis occupation. In this book, Alexander Gogun looks at the forces operating in Ukraine. The Nazi atrocities were often matched by partisan brutality. The author examines the indiscriminate use of scorched-earth tactics by the partisans, the destruction of their own villages, partisan-generated Nazi reprisals against civilians, and the daily incidents of robbery, drunkenness, rape and bloody internal conflicts that were reported to be widespread amongst the red partisans. Gogun also analyses allegations of the use of bacteriological weapons and even instances of cannibalism. He shows that all these practices were not a product of the culture of warfare nor a spontaneous 'people's respo... (Lees verder)nse' to the unremitting brutality of Nazi rule but a specific feature of Stalin's total war strategy.
Pagina's	314
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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