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Article: Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2007
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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. By Catherine Merridale. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006. 480 pages. $30.00. Reviewed by David M. Glantz, author of When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler and editor of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies.
No war in history has produced greater human suffering, material devastation, and political and social dislocation than the Barbarossa Campaign conducted by Adolph Hitler's Third Reich against Josef Stalin's Soviet Union during World War II. True to objectives he enunciated almost 20 years before in his autobiography, Mein Kampf, on 22 June 1941, Germany's Fuhrer unleashed a genuine ...