The Red Army and the Second World War (Armies of the Second World War)

In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.

• Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
• The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 - April 1944 (Modern War Studies)
• The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 (Modern War Studies)
• Case Red: The Collapse of France
• The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917–21
• Stalingrad (Modern War Studies)
• Operation Don's Main Attack: The Soviet Southern Front's Advance on Rostov, January-February 1943 (Modern War Studies)
• Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
• Triumph at Imphal-Kohima: How the Indian Army Finally Stopped the Japanese Juggernaut (Modern War Studies)
• Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975