Stalin's General The Life of Georgy Zhukov

Name: Stalin's General The Life of Georgy Zhukov
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ISBN: 9781400066926

ISBN-10: 1400066921

ISBN-13: 9781400066926

Edition: 2012

Authors: Geoffrey Roberts

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Widely regarded as the most accomplished general of World War II, the Soviet military legend Marshal Georgy Zhukov at last gets the full-scale biographical treatment he has long deserved, courtesy of historian Geoffrey Roberts’s sweeping, magisterialStalin’s General. A man of indomitable will and fierce determination to succeed, Zhukov was the Soviet Union’s indispensable commander through every one of the critical turning points of World War II. It was Zhukov who saved Leningrad from capture by the Wehrmacht in September 1941, Zhukov who led the defense of Moscow in October 1941, Zhukov who spearheaded the Red Army’s march on Berlin and formally accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Maps and Charts


Timeline: The Life and Career of Georgy Zhukov



Sic Transit Gloria: The Rises and Falls of Marshal Georgy Zhukov



Fabled Youth: From Peasant Childhood To Communist Soldier, 1896-1921



A Soldier's Life: The Education of a Red Commander, 1922-1938



Khalkhin-Gol, 1939: The Blooding of a General



In Kiev: War Games and Preparations, 1940



Architect of Disaster? Zhukov and June 22, 1941



Stalin's General: Saving Leningrad and Moscow, 1941



Architect of Victory? Stalingrad, 1942



Na Zapad! from Kursk to Warsaw, 1943-1944



Red Storm: The Conquest of Germany, 1945



Exiled to the Provinces: Disgrace and Rehabilitation, 1946-1954



Minister of Defense: Triumph and Travesty, 1955-1957



Final Battle: The Struggle for History, 1958-1974



Marshal of Victory


Notes


Bibliography


Index