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The Red Army and the Second World War

In a deﬁnitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill

charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from

the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the

end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy

and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisa-

tion on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account

of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key

Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of

eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the

perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to

reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany

and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.

a l e x a n d e r h i l l

is Associate Professor in Military History at the

University of Calgary, Canada

Armies of the Second World War

This is a major new series of histories of the armies of the key combatants in the

Second World War. The books are written by leading military historians and

consider key aspects of military activity for each of the major powers, including

planning, intelligence, strategy and operations. As with the parallel

Armies of the

Great War

series, military and strategic history is considered within the broader

context of foreign policy aims and allied strategic relations, national mobilisation

and the war’s domestic social, political and economic effects.

Titles in the series include:

The British Army and the Second World War

by Jonathan Fennell

The French Army and the Second World War

by Douglas Porch

The German Army and the Second World War

by Jeff Rutherford