Stalins Folly

Stalins folly nearly lost the war.Yet it has never been explained,neither in the terrifying days of 1941 when the German panzer divisions raced deep into Russia,nor after Stalins death,when it became a little safer to criticise him.Russian historian Constantine Pleshakov uses soviet archives to investigate why stalin acted the way he did.He reveals that Stalin was planning to invade Germany in 1942,that the Red Army was preparing for a pre-emptive strike into nazi occupied Poland.But Stalin couldn`t bring himself to believe that he would be beaten to the draw.
Hard back 325 pages.
8 pages of photographs
2005 edition

Code: 1466