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Article: Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945.
- Article from:
- The Historian
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
- Author:
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Although the titanic Nazi-Soviet conflict of 1941-45 was perhaps the most terrible military confrontation in all of human history, this volume's contention that "the Second World War was won and lost on the Eastern Front" seems at least arguable. However that may be, the East was indisputably the decisive theater of the European phase of World War II and thus deserves more attention from scholars than it has so far received. In this book, Christopher Duffy addresses the final appalling months of the Nazi-Soviet struggle from January to April 1945 with results that are at once impressive and disturbing.
Organized into six parts, and with a lengthy appendix, Duffy's ...