{"product_id":"9780375724718","title":"Absolute War Soviet Russia in the Second World War - Bellamy, Chris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eAbsolute War Soviet Russia in the Second World War\u003c\/u\u003e by Bellamy, Chris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history.\n\nThe conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war, and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the two dictators was unceremoniously broken, and examines its far-reaching consequences, arguing that the cost of victory was ultimately too much for the Soviet Union to bear. With breadth of scope and a surfeit of new information, this is the definitive history of a conflict whose reverberations are still felt today.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008","offers":[{"title":"Absolute War Soviet Russia in the Second World War \/ Very Good","offer_id":53375526142244,"sku":"9780375724718VG","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_127d8342-9bcd-4fb0-9e80-8e25823cf315.jpg?v=1781793042","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780375724718","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}