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The Pursuit of Progress in Britain After 1945

Anxiety and Longing

Why War?

Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan

Rain of Ruin

The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945

Blood and Ruins

Countdown to War

1939

The World's First Air Force

The Birth of the RAF, 1918

Europe, 1939-1945

The Bombing War

Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939

The Morbid Age

Myth and Reality

The Battle of Britain

The Origins of World War II

The Road to War

Why The Allies Won

Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia

The Dictators

Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite

Interrogations

Russia's War

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A dramatic and exciting tale ... His set-piece descriptions of such visions of Hell as Stalingrad, the 900-day siege of Leningrad and the crucial battle of Kursk are as fascinating as they are horrifying

Overy is a first-class military historian ... He writes concisely and says what he means to say ... Now, we have an authoritative British account that understands both sides, without illusions

Excellent ... Overy tackles this huge, complex and multifaceted story with the vital gifts of clarity and brevity

In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-5. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period now stand at more than 25 million. In Russia's War, Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Germany from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians.

In Russia's War: 1941-1945, Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians. 
 
 In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period now stand at more than 25 million. 
 
 Yet without the Soviet war effort, it is unlikely that Germany could have ever been defeated. Drawing on a recent wealth of evidence to account for the Soviet Union's remarkable victory against invading forces, Richard Overy's Russia's War is a fascinating account of the epic struggle that turned the tide of the Second World War. 
 
 'Masterly ... a vivid account' &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Robert Service, Independent 
 'A dramatic and exciting tale ... His set-piece descriptions of such visions of Hell as Stalingrad, the 900-day siege of Leningrad and the crucial battle of Kursk are as fascinating as they are horrifying' &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Alan Judd, Sunday Times 
 'Overy is a first-class military historian ... Now, we have an authoritative British account that understands both sides, without illusions' &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Norman Stone, Spectator 
 'Excellent ... Overy tackles this huge, complex and multifaceted story with the vital gifts of clarity and brevity' &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Antony Beevor, Literary Review 
 
 Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include Why the Allies Won, Russia's War, The Battle of Britain, The Morbid Age and The Dictators, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for history in 2005.

Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include Why the Allies Won, Russia's War, The Battle of Britain, The Morbid Age and The Dictators, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for history in 2005.

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Masterly ... a vivid account

A dramatic and exciting tale ... His set-piece descriptions of such visions of Hell as Stalingrad, the 900-day siege of Leningrad and the crucial battle of Kursk are as fascinating as they are horrifying

Overy is a first-class military historian ... He writes concisely and says what he means to say ... Now, we have an authoritative British account that understands both sides, without illusions

Excellent ... Overy tackles this huge, complex and multifaceted story with the vital gifts of clarity and brevity

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