Dvoretsky Lev Fugate Bryan I (2 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Sehr gut. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. XVI, 415 pages. Several black and white photographs in centre and maps throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Fine / As New. Out of print. Includes for example the following essays: The War Games of Early 1941 / Soviet Preperation for War / The Battle Begins: The Race to the Dnepr / Yelnia: The End of the Blitzkrieg etc. A re-examination of the reasons as to the defeat of the Germans on the Russian front. It asserts that the defeat was as much due to the preperation and planning of the Russians, hitherto unresearched and ignored, prior to the German invasion as it was to mistakes and exhaustion of the latter and the Russian winter as previously accepted. Dr. Bryan Fugate received his doctorate in Soviet and German military history from the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Operation Barbarossa. Col. Lev Dvoretsky retired from the Red Army in 1982, received his doctorate in journalism from the University of Moscow and is currently the Director of Military-Historical and Military-Economic publications of the Russian-American joint venture, Amscort International. (from rear flap).…