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Hitler versus Stalin shows the brutality, horror and heroism of war on the Eastern Front as never before. Over 300 rare photographs, many recently released from the Russian archives and previously unpublished in the West, illustrate every phase and aspect of the Eastern Front campaigns, from the Nazis' early blitzkrieg successes, the battle for Moscow and the siege of Leningrad, through the street fighting for Stalingrad, and the Soviet successes at Kursk and Operation Bagration, to the climactic fall of Berlin and the link-up between Soviet and Western armies amid the ruins of the "1000-year Reich". This is total war in its most barbaric form: nearly 30 million Soviet soldiers and citizens were killed during four years of struggle against their German invaders.
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PROFESSOR JOHN & LJUBICA ERICKSON
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EASTERN FRONT IN P H O T O G R A P H S
THIS IS A CARLTON BOOK Design copyright © 2001 Carlton Books Limited Text copyright © 2001 Professor John Erickson This edition published by Carlton Books Limited 2001 20 Mortimer Street London WIT 3JW This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, b y w a y of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior written consent in any form of cover or b i n d i n g other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this c o n d i t i o n , being imposed upon the subsequent purchaser. All rights reserved. A CIP catalogue for this book is available from the British Library.
UK ISBN 1 84222 242 2 US ISBN 1 84222 260 0 Picture Research: Sergei K u d r y a s h o v Executive Editor: Sarah L a r t e r Editors: Paul Doherty, Janice Anderson Art Editor: Peter Bailey Design: Simon Mercer Picture Manager: Sally Claxton Production: Garry Lewis Jacket: Alison Tutton Printed in Dubai
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