This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great wo...(展开全部)

This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great wo...(展开全部)

This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great wo...(展开全部)

This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great wo...(展开全部)

Sean McMeekin is Professor of History at Bard College, New York. For some years he taught at Bilkent University, Ankara. His books include the highly successful The Berlin-Baghdad Express (Penguin), The Russian Origins of the First World War and The Ottoman Endgame (Penguin).

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin--not Hitler--was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia--and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 迈克尔·多布斯(Michael Dobbs)，生于北爱尔兰首府贝尔法斯特，毕业于约克大学，曾获普林斯顿大学和哈佛大学的研究资助。他职业生涯的大部分时间是在《华盛顿邮报》当记者。他的前作《午夜将至》和《打倒老大哥：苏联的解体》，曾入围美国笔会(PEN)非小说类奖项的决赛。 【译者简介】 董旻杰（网名本垒打），资深战争史研究者，曾任“知兵堂”执行总编，著有国内研究阿登战役的代表作品《沸腾的雪：阿登反击战》。审校的代表作品有科尼利厄斯·瑞恩所著的《二战史诗三部曲》、海因茨·古德里安所著的《闪击战：古德里安回忆录》等。 王小伟 同济大学管理科学与工程硕士，从事房地产行业监察审计工作，长期研究二战史及冷战史。

【作者简介】 迈克尔·多布斯(Michael Dobbs)，生于北爱尔兰首府贝尔法斯特，毕业于约克大学，曾获普林斯顿大学和哈佛大学的研究资助。他职业生涯的大部分时间是在《华盛顿邮报》当记者。他的前作《午夜将至》和《打倒老大哥：苏联的解体》，曾入围美国笔会(PEN)非小说类奖项的决赛。 【译者简介】 董旻杰（网名本垒打），资深战争史研究者，曾任“知兵堂”执行总编，著有国内研究阿登战役的代表作品《沸腾的雪：阿登反击战》。审校的代表作品有科尼利厄斯·瑞恩所著的《二战史诗三部曲》、海因茨·古德里安所著的《闪击战：古德里安回忆录》等。 王小伟 同济大学管理科学与工程硕士，从事房地产行业监察审计工作，长期研究二战史及冷战史。

In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Second World War. Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was a successful murderous predator. With Hitler dead and the Third Reich in ruins, Stalin created an immense new Communist empire. Among his holdings were Czechoslovakia and ...(展开全部)

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancro...(展开全部)