Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy ZhukovRandom House, 2012 - 375 oldal 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. A man of indomitable will and fierce determination, Georgy 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 in the spring of 1945. Drawing on the latest research from recently opened Soviet archives, including the uncensored versions of Zhukov’s own memoirs, Roberts offers a vivid portrait of a man whose tactical brilliance was matched only by the cold-blooded ruthlessness with which he pursued his battlefield objectives. After the war, Zhukov was a key player on the geopolitical scene. As Khrushchev’s defense minister, he was one of the architects of Soviet military strategy during the Cold War. While lauded in the West as a folk hero—he was the only Soviet general ever to appear on the cover ofTimemagazine—Zhukov repeatedly ran afoul of the Communist political authorities. Wrongfully accused of disloyalty, he was twice banished and erased from his country’s official history—left out of books and paintings depicting Soviet World War II victories. Piercing the hyperbole of the Zhukov personality cult, Roberts debunks many of the myths that have sprung up around Zhukov’s life and career to deliver fresh insights into the marshal’s relationships with Stalin, Khrushchev, and Eisenhower. A remarkably intimate portrait of a man whose life was lived behind an Iron Curtain of official secrecy,Stalin’s Generalis an authoritative biography that restores Zhukov to his rightful place in the twentieth-century military pantheon. |
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THE RISES | 3 |
FROM PEASANT | 13 |
THE EDUCATION OF | 27 |
THE BLOODING | 48 |
WAR GAMES | 67 |
ARCHITECT OF DISASTER? ZHUKOV | 87 |
SAVING LENINGRAD | 122 |
ARCHITECT OF VICTORY? STALINGRAD 1942 | 154 |
NA ZAPAD FROM KURSK TO WARSAW | 179 |
THE CONQUEST | 213 |
DISGRACE | 244 |
TRIUMPH | 258 |
THE STRUGGLE | 290 |
MARSHAL OF VICTORY | 309 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 351 |
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