The Unknown War
New York, N.Y. Bantam Books, Inc., 1978. First Printing [Stated]First Printing. Trade paperback. 219 pages. Maps, Illustrations. Index. Chapters include A Quiet Sunday; Stalin's Blunder; Bravery at Brest; The Tragedy of Kiev; The Russian Dunkirk; Leningrad in Danger; The Circle Closed; The Crisis Deepens; The Battle of Moscow; Leningrad in Blockade; The Red Army Attacks; Hitler Tries for Stalingrad; Stalin and Churchill; Victory at Stalingrad; The Greatest Battle of the War; Babi Yar; Warsaw and Other Battles; On to Berlin; The Last Days of Berlin; Hitler Kaput; and the Last Act. This is the remarkable history of the Russian struggle against the Germans by Harrison Salisbury--the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and foremost authority on Russian affairs--so pulsing with the drama of a terrifying life-and-death struggle that it reads like a novel, and includes never-before-released War Photos from the Soviet Archives. Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908 – July 5, 1993), was an American journalist and the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II. He spent nearly 20 years with United Press (UP), much of it overseas, and was UP's foreign editor during the last two years of World War II. Additionally, he was The New York Times' Moscow bureau chief from 1949–1954. Salisbury constantly battled Soviet censorship and won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1955. He twice (in 1957 and 1966) received the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting. He was an early mainstream journalists to oppose the Vietnam War after reporting from North Vietnam in 1966. He was the first American journalist to report on the Vietnam War from North Vietnam. This work was associated with a landmark series of 20 one-hour historical documentary war films, including never-before-released footage from the Soviet archives. On June 22, 1941, the most explosive war in the history of mankind erupted with savage suddenness when 4,200,000 elite Nazi troops crashed into Russia over a frontier 1.800 miles long. "The Unknown War" had begun, the incredible war between Hitler's Germany and the Soviet Union. Here were the greatest battles of World War II, the most unbelievable agonies and devastating human losses that the modern world had ever seen. By war's end the toll would be more than 30.000.000 lives. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: WWII, Eastern Front, Battle of Moscow, Battle of Kursk, Siege of Leningrad, Battle of Stalingrad, Fall of Berlin, Chuikov, Konev, Rokossovsky, Zhukov
ISBN: 0553011588
[Book #82313]
Price: $40.00