Hitler vs. Stalin
The Eastern Front, 1941-1945
Published on 7. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-4165-7350-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book argues strongly that the war in the East was Hitler's to lose, that Stalin was in grave jeopardy from the outset of the war, due in large part to his sadistic and vicious behavior throughout the 1930s, which all but destroyed the Red Army and Russian industry, and that the conventional wisdom about the brave Soviet soldiers rescuing the motherland in the Great Patriotic War is nonsense. Stalin's horrendous troop losses left him on the edge of surrender until the Allies saved him.
Reviews / Votes
"Deathride is a dramatic departure from the conventional wisdom and is itself a dramatic chronicle of the most brutal theater in the most brutal war in one of history's most brutal centuries. . . . This is a clear-eyed, compelling description of a battle that has been described many times, but seldom with such an ironic eye."-David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe "Mr. Mosier [is] one of the more entertainingly contrarian military historians writing today. . . . an important and groundbreaking book about the Eastern front."
-Joseph C. Goulden, The Washington Times
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
524 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4165-7350-0 (9781416573500)
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E-Book
06/2010
1st Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
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Person
John Mosier is a professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans. He is the author of four books of military history: The Myth of the Great War, The Blitzkrieg Myth, The Generalship of U. S. Grant, and Cross of Iron. He has appeared on the BBC, Fox News, the History Channel, Sky News, and Comcast. An active film critic (he served on the Camera d'Or jury at the Cannes Film Festival), he has also written over 100 articles on film for Kino, Americas, Variety, and the New Orleans Arts Review. He lives in Jefferson, Louisiana.