Tells the suffering of the Russians and how they turned the tide.

A set of 39 volumes covering the history of World War II from 1939 to 1945.

" Red Army, Russian Krasnaya Armiya, Soviet army created by the Communist government after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The name Red Army was abandoned in 1946. This book reveals the Red Army's mastery of operational level deception during World War II which resulted in their ability to hide major regroupings for surprising breakthrough operations that rolled back the German invaders. This revised edition adds insight to the shadow war between German military intelligence collectors and Soviet deceivers and the Red Army's ability to collect lessons learned from their war experience. With a resurgent Russia, there is a renewed interest around the world for the Red Army legacy in deceptive practices. Colonel Armstrong's study illustrates not only the effort needed for success, but also a direct link to operational surprise. "

" Red Army, Russian Krasnaya Armiya, Soviet army created by the Communist government after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The name Red Army was abandoned in 1946. This book reveals the Red Army's mastery of operational level deception during World War II which resulted in their ability to hide major regroupings for surprising breakthrough operations that rolled back the German invaders. This revised edition adds insight to the shadow war between German military intelligence collectors and Soviet deceivers and the Red Army's ability to collect lessons learned from their war experience. With a resurgent Russia, there is a renewed interest around the world for the Red Army legacy in deceptive practices. Colonel Armstrong's study illustrates not only the effort needed for success, but also a direct link to operational surprise. "

A major new account of the Soviet Union at war which charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army.

Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's moral weight helped defeat the 1991 coup against Gorbachev launched by Communist Party hardliners. The Soviet Union disintegrated, leaving Russians searching for a usable past. The Garrards reveal how Patriarch Aleksy II--a former KGB officer and the man behind the church's successful defeat of the coup--is reconstituting a new national idea in the church's own image. In the new Russia, the former KGB who run the country--Vladimir Putin among them--proclaim the cross, not the hammer and sickle. Meanwhile, a majority of Russians now embrace the Orthodox faith with unprecedented fervor. The Garrards trace how Aleksy orchestrated this transformation, positioning his church to inherit power once held by the Communist Party and to become the dominant ethos of the military and government. They show how the revived church under Aleksy prevented mass violence during the post-Soviet turmoil, and how Aleksy astutely linked the church with the army and melded Russian patriotism and faith. Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent argues that the West must come to grips with this complex and contradictory resurgence of the Orthodox faith, because it is the hidden force behind Russia's domestic and foreign policies today.

Drawing on evidence never before seen in the West, including combat records of early engagements, David Glantz claims that in 1941 the Red Army was poorly trained, inadequately equipped, ineptly organized, and consequently incapable of engaging in large-scale military campaigns - and both Hitler and Stalin knew it. He provides a complete and convincing study of why the Soviets almost lost the war that summer, dispelling many of the myths about the Red Army that have persisted since the war and soundly refuting Viktor Suvorov's controversial thesis that Stalin was planning a preemptive strike against Germany.

"Beyond the battles themselves, Glantz also presents an in-depth portrait of the Red Army as an evolving military institution. Assessing more clearly than ever before the army's size, strength, and force structure, he provides keen insights into its doctrine, strategy, tactics, weaponry, training, officer corps, and political leadership. In the process, be puts a human face on the Red Army's commanders and soldiers, including women and those who served in units - security (NKVD), engineer, railroad, auto-transport, construction, and penal forces - that have till now remained poorly understood."--BOOK JACKET.