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Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front

Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front

Pleshakov, Constantine

Paperback

General Military HistoryRussian HistoryWeapons of Mass Destruction

ISBN10: 0618773614
ISBN13: 9780618773619
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Dec 12 2006
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

On June 22, 1941, radios all over the Soviet Union crackled with the announcement that the country had been attacked by Nazi Germany. But the voice on the airwaves was not the familiar one of Joseph Stalin; it was the voice of his deputy, Molotov. Paralyzed by Hitler's unexpected move, Stalin disappeared completely from public view for the crucial ten days of war on the Eastern Front. In this taut, hour-by-hour account, Constantine Pleshakov draws on a wealth of information from newly opened archives to elucidate the complex causes of the Soviet leader's reaction, revealing the feared despot's unrealized military stratagems as well as his personal vulnerabilities, while also offering a new and deeper understanding of Russian history.

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