Hill A. The Red Army and the Second World War

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 758 p.In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.List of Figures
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Military Ranks
Introduction
Of Horses and Men: The Red Army of the Late 1920s
Tanks, Aircraft and ‘Deep Battle’: The Red Army Transformed 1928-1936
The ‘Enemy’ within: The Red Army during and in the Aftermath of the Great Purges, 1937-1940
More than Manoeuvres: Red Army Experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan
Khalkhin Gol
Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: Soviet Military Equipment and the Small Wars of the 1930s
Voroshilov’s ‘Lightning’ War: The Soviet Invasion of Poland
The Finnish Debacle
Reform and the Road to War
‘Barbarossa’: From Minsk to Smolensk
‘Barbarossa’: From Smolensk to Moscow
The End of ‘Typhoon’
Lost Opportunity
More Men, Women and Machines
‘‘Not a step back!’’
Change at the Top
Stalingrad and ‘Uranus’
The Wrath of the Gods
The Defence of the Kursk Salient and the Battle for Prokhorovka
To the Dnepr and Beyond
The Ten ‘Stalinist’ Blows of 1944
The End in Sight
The Fall of Berlin and the End of the Reich
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix 1: The Destruction of the Upper Echelons of the RKKA in 1937-1941
Appendix 2: Soviet Armoured Strength and Serviceability in the Western Military Districts of the Soviet Union as of 1 June 1941
Glossary
Bibliography
Archival Sources:
Published Documents (Including Service Diaries):
Personal Diaries, Interviews, Memoirs and Other Eyewitness Testimony
Selected Secondary Sources
Websites:
Index