ASIN: B00NWC1RIW
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 468
The Soviet Army was one of the most powerful military forces ever created. As the sun set over the radar crews of Kamchatka, across the strait from Alaska, it rose on divisions barracked on the former German soil of Kaliningrad. Between these extremities of the eastern and western hemispheres, its men underpinned a system and a superpower. Their desertion from the Tsar in 1917 created, amid a swirling civil war, the world's first Communist State in a giant country that neither Marx nor Lenin had thought ripe for revolution. In the greatest battles of the Second World War, they broke the back of Nazism. They brought Communism and a new post-war order into the heartland of Europe during their advance. They maintained it through the long years of Soviet power, despite the tragic Hungarian and Czech revolts. At their peak, they were a rival to the United States.In this, the most ...
