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Article: Man of steel, re-forged.(Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953)(Book review)
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- The National Interest
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- September 1, 2007
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Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War; 1939-1953 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 496 pp., $35.00.
STALIN'S WARS by Geoffrey Roberts, a professor of history at University College Cork, is in many respects a model of scholarship. It draws on an impressive array of Russian, British and American archives as well as a large number of published documents and secondary sources. It is impeccably organized. The author writes with clarity, and authority. He advances a sharply defined and well-supported argument about an important topic, challenging the conventional wisdom and offering a thoroughly substantiated alternative. His canvas is ...