A comprehensive account of the history of the Second World War, with expert commentary on its political and economic causes, every key moment, and the impact of new technologies and military strategies - including moving contemporary eyewitness accounts personally interviewed by the author.
In Russia's War: 1941-1945 , Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians. In the course of human history there has probably been more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period w stand at more than 25 million.…