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Author Hooton, E. R

Title Stalin's Claws From the Purges to the Winter War: Red Army Operations Before Barbarossa 1937-1941
Published Havertown : Tattered Flag, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (240 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Author's Note -- Glossary -- Chapter One: Parade of the Damned -- Chapter Two: Facing the Rising Sun -- Chapter Three: Blows to the West -- Chapter Four: The Winter War: Disaster in the Snow -- Chapter Five: The Winter War: Victory without Triumph -- Chapter Six: Awaiting the Western Storm -- Appendix 1: Soviet Order of Battle in Lake Khasan Battles -- Appendix 2: Soviet Order of Battle at Khalkin Gol: 20 August 1939 -- Appendix 3: Soviet Order of Battle in Poland: 17 September 1939
Appendix 4: Soviet Order of Battle for occupation of Baltic States: October 1939 -- Appendix 5: Soviet Order of Battle during Winter War -- Appendix 6: Soviet Order of Battle for Invasion of the Baltic States: June 1940 -- Appendix 7: Soviet Order of Battle for occupation of Bessarabia and Bukovina: June 1940 -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary ""In the late 1930s the Soviet Union experienced a brutal Ezhovshchina - or Purge - which swept through all levels of its society with millions arrested and tens of thousands shot for reasons lacking any form of ethics or justification.As historian, E.R. Hooton describes in this absorbing and revealing history, the Soviet armed forces did not escap""
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ -- History
SUBJECT Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ fast
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780954311599
0954311590