TY - BOOK AU - Bellamy,Chris TI - Absolute war: Soviet Russia in the Second World War : a modern history T2 - Pan military classics series SN - 9780330510042 (pbk.) AV - D764 .B45 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Pan Book KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Campaigns KW - Eastern Front KW - Soviet Union KW - History KW - German occupation, 1941-1944 N1 - Reprint. Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2007; Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index; Flight of the rabid wolf: the long-term impact of the war in the east -- Absolute and total war -- The fatal romance: the Nazi-Soviet alliance, 1939 -- Soviet expansion, 1939-40 -- War aims, war plans, and who was planning to attack whom? -- Barbarossa - the world's worst-kept secret? -- Iron road east. the country, the armed forces -- Barbarossa unleashed -- Kremlin at war -- Winning oneself to death -- Midnight in Moscow -- Black snow -- White night: Leningrad, 1941-44 -- The grand alliance -- To the edge of the abyss: the worst year, 1942 -- From defence to attack: the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Mars -- Kursk and a new professionalism -- Destroying the Wehrmacht: Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic: reasserting Soviet control -- Victory -- New world order ER -