Absolute war : Soviet Russia in the Second World War : a modern history /
Chris Bellamy.
- London : Pan Book, 2009.
- xxix, 814 p., 24 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
- Pan military classics series .
- Pan military classics series. .
Reprint. Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Flight of the rabid wolf: the long-term impact of the war in the east -- Absolute and total war -- The fatal romance: the Nazi-Soviet alliance, 1939 -- Soviet expansion, 1939-40 -- War aims, war plans, and who was planning to attack whom? -- Barbarossa - the world's worst-kept secret? -- Iron road east. the country, the armed forces -- Barbarossa unleashed -- Kremlin at war -- Winning oneself to death -- Midnight in Moscow -- Black snow -- White night: Leningrad, 1941-44 -- The grand alliance -- To the edge of the abyss: the worst year, 1942 -- From defence to attack: the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Mars -- Kursk and a new professionalism -- Destroying the Wehrmacht: Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic: reasserting Soviet control -- Victory -- New world order.