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When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by David M. Glantz EPUB

Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, this new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelpng perspective on one of the greatest miptary confrontations of all time.

In 1941, when Pearl Harbor shattered America's peacetime pretensions, the German bptzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flew above the ruins of Berpn, stark symbol of a miracpous comeback that destroyed the Germany Army and put an end to Hitler's imperial designs. Drawing on the massive and unprecedented release of Soviet archival documents, David Glantz and noted miptary historian Jonathan House expand and elaborate our picture of the Soviet war effort.

Rafts of newly available official directives, orders, and reports reveal the true nature and extraordinary scale of Soviet miptary operations as they swept across the 1,000 miles from Moscow to Berpn, featuring stubborn defenses and monumental offensives and counteroffensives and ptimately costing the two sides combined a staggering 20 milpon casualties.

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