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Based on a wealth of source material, the author sets out to refute the widely held view among historians and military experts that the German defeat at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942/43 marked the turning-point in the war. He shows how Hitler's attempt to crush the Soviet Union in…

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The Nazi-Soviet War was a notable exception to the unofficial “victors write the history” rule common to military history. In this case the losers wrote the first histories because 1) English-speaking nations and armies were not involved, 2) Cold War prejudices demanded an anti-Soviet narrative, and 3) the conflict was so confusing and complex plus alien to Western readers.

This book dispenses with the “we came so close” and “only inexhaustible numbers beat us” arguments of immediate post-war German memoirists and apologists. I always appreciate a historian is willing to take a new look at evidence and challenge long-held…and false…

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