@article{331924,
      author = {Bellamy, Chris.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/331924},
      title = {Absolute war : Soviet Russia in the Second World War /},
      publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,},
      abstract = {The battle on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 was  the single most decisive factor of World War II. Now,  drawing on sources newly available since the collapse of  the Soviet Union, historian and journalist Chris Bellamy  presents the first full account of this deadly conflict. He  presents a shocking picture of battle in which the  traditional restraints of "civilized" warfare were shed. He  makes clear how the Soviets quickly rallied against Hitler  in a struggle that the Russian people call the Great  Patriotic War. He shows how Soviet men--and women--joined  in a war whose casualties were later steeply underestimated  by their government, and how even the true death toll, at  27 million, does not count the millions of lives that lay  shattered. Finally, Bellamy examines the far-reaching  consequences--the reverberations of which are still felt  today--and argues that the cost of victory was ultimately  too much for the Soviet Union to bear.--From publisher  description.},
      recid = {331924},
      pages = {xxix, 813 p., [24] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2007},
}