The Cambridge Companion to the Nazi-Soviet War
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 13 November 2025
- 20 November 2025
- ISBN:
- 9781009656733
- 9781009656696
- 9781009656726
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.75kg, 422 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.607kg, 422 Pages
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The Nazi-Soviet War was the largest and most brutal theatre of the Second World War, fought between two of the most ruthless states ever to exist. Bringing together twenty-four of the most accomplished authors in both German and Soviet history, this Cambridge Companion provides the most authoritative, and yet highly accessible, guide to the conflict. Each chapter examines a key aspect of the war from war planning, the opposing forces and the campaigns to criminality and occupation, alliances, the home fronts and postwar legacies and myth-making. The authors demonstrate that the Nazi-Soviet war was both a conventional clash of arms in which millions of soldiers fought in titanic battles, but also a non-conventional war in which soldiers and security forces murdered countless non-combatants. It was a war of resources, industry, mobilisation, administration, and popular support, with implications that still drive European security debates today.
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‘All of the papers are very good, offering fresh insights into the conduct, course, and experience of the war. … Anyone with an interest in the Russo-German War will find this work informative and at times ground-breaking.’
A. A. Nofi Source: The New York Military Affairs Symposium
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