Overview
"The ultimate chronicle of Russia's Second World War, using newly released sources to analyse the human sacrifice and suffering beneath the statistics. In June 1941, breaking the controversial Nazi-Soviet non-aggression treaty and catching Stalin by surprise, the armies of the Third Reich invaded Russia in a devastating Blitzkrieg, that saw them destroy the Soviet airforce on the ground, reach the gates of Leningrad in six weeks and fix their sights on Moscow. Hitler's intention was to raze both cities to the ground and cultivate the rich Russian countryside for the benefit of the German people. The Soviet People were fighting for their lives. 'The Furies Unleashed' sets out to tell the military, diplomatic and social story of Russia in the Second World War on a scale that has never been attempted before - to connect the history of the fighting with the saga of human suffering - and to reassess its far-reaching impact. Making use of collections of previously top-secret documents released in post-Soviet Russia and consulting a mass of new memoirs published after the collapse of the USSR, Steven Merritt Miner brings to bear his huge knowledge and experience of the conflict in the creation of an updated narrative of this monumental clash. Taking account of the tangled ethnic, national and regional realities and also the cultural, social and economic factors that both devastated and made possible the bloody triumph of the Russian people, ""The Furies Unleashed"" will present a 'civic history' of what the Russians call the Great Patriotic War."
Full Product Details
Author: Steven Merritt Miner
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: William Collins
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 4.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 1.060kg
ISBN: 9780007508570
ISBN 10: 0007508573
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 28 September 2023
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Praise for Steven Merritt Miner: `One of the most significant reassessments of Soviet history since the Cold War ended' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University
Praise for Steven Merritt Miner: 'One of the most significant reassessments of Soviet history since the Cold War ended' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University
Author Information
Chair of the History Department at Ohio University, Professor Miner is the author of 'Between Churchill and Stalin' which won the American Historical Association's 1991 George Louis Beer prize for the best book of the year in European history and 'Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alliance'. He has written for the TLS, Foreign Affairs, the L.A. Times, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
