The Red Army and the Second World War / Alexander Hill, University of Calgary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of horses and men: the Red Army of the late 1920s -- Tanks, aircraft and deep battle: the Red Army transformed 1928-1936 -- The enemy within: the Red Army during and in the aftermath of the great purges, 1937-1940 -- More than manoueuvres: Red Army experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan -- Khalkin Gol -- Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: Soviet military equipment and the small wars of the 1930s -- Voroshilov's lightning war: the Soviet invasion of Poland -- The Finnish debacle -- Reform and the road to war -- Barbarossa: from Minsk to Smolensk -- Barbarossa: from Smolensk to Moscow -- The end of Typhoon -- Lost opportunity -- More men, women and machines -- Not a step back! -- Change at the top -- Stalingrad and Uranus -- The wrath of the Gods -- The defence of the Kursk salient and the battle for Prokhorovka -- To the Dnepr and beyond -- The ten Stalinist blows of 1944 -- The end in sight -- The fall of Berlin and the end of the reich -- Conclusion.

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