Alexander Hill completed both his undergraduate education and doctorate at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, and has taught military history and Russian history at the University of Calgary for more than a decade. During his tenure at the University of Calgary, he has published two other books, The War behind the Eastern Front (2005), on the Soviet partisan movement in north-west Russia during the Second World War, and The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-1945: A Documentary Reader (2009), as well as many journal articles on the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
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Introduction 1. Of horses and men: the Red Army of the late 1920s 2. Tanks, aircraft and 'deep battle': the Red Army transformed, 1928-1936 3. The 'enemy' within: the Red Army during and in the aftermath of the great purges, 1937-1940 4. More than manoeuvres: Red Army experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan 5. Khalkin Gol 6. Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: soviet military equipment and the small wars of the 1930s 7. Voroshilov's 'lightning' war: the Soviet invasion of Poland 8. The Finnish debacle 9. Reform and the road to war 10. Barbarossa: from Minsk to Smolensk 11. Barbarossa: from Smolensk to Moscow 12. The end of 'Typhoon' 13. Lost opportunity 14. More men, women and machines 15. 'Not a step back!' 16. Change at the top 17. Stalingrad and Uranus 18. The wrath of the Gods 19. The defence of the Kursk salient and the battle for Prokhorovka 20. To the Dnepr and beyond 21. The ten Stalinist blows of 1944 22. The end in sight 23. The fall of Berlin and the end of the Reich Conclusion Appendix 1. The destruction of the upper echelons of the RKKA in 1937-1941 Appendix 2. Soviet armoured strength and serviceability in the Western military districts of the Soviet Union as of 1 June 1941 Glossary Bibliography Index.
Introduction 1. Of horses and men: the Red Army of the late 1920s 2. Tanks, aircraft and 'deep battle': the Red Army transformed, 1928-1936 3. The 'enemy' within: the Red Army during and in the aftermath of the great purges, 1937-1940 4. More than manoeuvres: Red Army experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan 5. Khalkin Gol 6. Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: soviet military equipment and the small wars of the 1930s 7. Voroshilov's 'lightning' war: the Soviet invasion of Poland 8. The Finnish debacle 9. Reform and the road to war 10. Barbarossa: from Minsk to Smolensk 11. Barbarossa: from Smolensk to Moscow 12. The end of 'Typhoon' 13. Lost opportunity 14. More men, women and machines 15. 'Not a step back!' 16. Change at the top 17. Stalingrad and Uranus 18. The wrath of the Gods 19. The defence of the Kursk salient and the battle for Prokhorovka 20. To the Dnepr and beyond 21. The ten Stalinist blows of 1944 22. The end in sight 23. The fall of Berlin and the end of the Reich Conclusion Appendix 1. The destruction of the upper echelons of the RKKA in 1937-1941 Appendix 2. Soviet armoured strength and serviceability in the Western military districts of the Soviet Union as of 1 June 1941 Glossary Bibliography Index.
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