The chief culprit : Stalin's grand design to start World War II /
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| Language: | English |
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Annapolis, MD :
Naval Institute Press,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The struggle for peace, and its results
- 2. First attempts to unleash a Second World War
- 3. The first contact
- 4. Stalin's role in the rebirth of German war power
- 5. Why did Stalin like Hitler's book so much?
- 6. Industrialization and collectivization
- 7. Stalin's role in elevating Hitler
- 8. Stalin and the destruction of Soviet strategic aviation
- 9. Stalin's preparations for war : tanks
- 10. On the "obsolete" Soviet tanks
- 11. Winged Genghis Kahn
- 12. About "obsolete" airplanes
- 13. Soviet airborne assault troops and their mission
- 14. About the brilliant military leader Tukhachevski
- 15. The cleansing
- 16. Spain
- 17. Stalin's trap for Hitler
- 18. Results of the Moscow Pact
- 19. Blitzkrieg in Poland and Mongolia
- 20. Mobilization
- 21. Mobilization of the economy
- 22. The winter war : Finland
- 23. Germany's strategic resources and Stalin's plans
- 24. The carving up of Romania, and its consequences
- 24. Destruction of the buffer states between Germany and the Soviet Union
- 26. Destruction of the security pale on the eve of the war
- 27. Partisans or saboteurs?
- 28. Destruction of the Stalin Line
- 29. Trotsky murdered, Molotov in Berlin
- 30. Kremlin games
- 31. All the way to Berlin!
- 32. Mountain divisions on the steppes of Ukraine
- 33. Stalin in May
- 34. June 13, 1941
- 35. Words and deeds
- 36. Red Army, black Gulag uniforms
- 37. Military alignment
- 38. Churchill's warning and Stalin's reaction
- 39. A Blitzkrieg against Russia?
- 40. Intelligence reports and Stalin's reaction
- 41. The war has begun
- 42. Stalin's panic
- 43. If it weren't for winter!
- 44. A model war.