The Red Army and the Second World War

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Military Ranks -- Introduction -- 1 Of Horses and Men: The Red Army of the Late 1920s -- 2 Tanks, Aircraft and 'Deep Battle': The Red Army Transformed 1928-1936 -- 3 The 'Enemy' within: The Red Army during and in the Aftermath of the Great Purges, 1937-1940 -- 4 More than Manoeuvres: Red Army Experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan -- 5 Khalkhin Gol -- 6 Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: Soviet Military Equipment and the Small Wars of the 1930s -- 7 Voroshilov's 'Lightning' War: The Soviet Invasion of Poland -- 8 The Finnish Debacle -- 9 Reform and the Road to War -- 10 'Barbarossa': From Minsk to Smolensk -- 11 'Barbarossa': From Smolensk to Moscow -- 12 The End of 'Typhoon' -- 13 Lost Opportunity -- 14 More Men, Women and Machines -- 15 ''Not a step back!'' -- 16 Change at the Top -- 17 Stalingrad and 'Uranus' -- 18 The Wrath of the Gods -- 19 The Defence of the Kursk Salient and the Battle for Prokhorovka -- 20 To the Dnepr and Beyond -- 21 The Ten 'Stalinist' Blows of 1944 -- 22 The End in Sight -- 23 The Fall of Berlin and the End of the Reich -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: The Destruction of the Upper Echelons of the RKKA in 1937-1941