Caught in the borderlands of party politics and military preparedness, the Red Army endured the crucible of Stalin's purges. Reese tells this extraordinary story with an eye for dramatic detail and hidden irony, making full use of rare memoirs and newly accessible materials from Russian archives. A singular contribution to Soviet military history". -- Von Hardesty, author of Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941-1945. "An original, p...
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