Stalin's Generals
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xx, 394pp. Cloth covered boards. Pictorial, laminated dust jacket. Illustrated with maps and charts. DJ a little rubbed at corners. Internally clean, crisp and bright. Square and firmly bound. Profiles, written by leading academics and military historians, of some 25 of Stalin's generals, from Antonov to Zhukovand, and a concluding chapter on those who were 'purged' in 1937-38 - Stalin's Ghosts, throwing light on the relationship between the new military elite and a totalitarian leader at a time when the very existence of the Soviet state was in the balance.