The Road to Stalingrad

Book Review

by John Burke


The Road to Stalingrad Stalin's War with Germany
John Erikson
Yale University Press
c. June 1999

In this first volume of John Erickson`s monumental history of the grueling Soviet-German war of 1941-1945, the author takes us from the pre-invasion Soviet Union, with its inept com-mand structures and strategic delusions, to the humiliating retreats of Soviet armies before the Barbarossa onslaught, to the climactic, grinding battle for Stalingrad that left the Red Army poised for its majestic counteroffensive. Price $19.95 pps. 594 *****


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