Chris Bellamy's Absolute War is a substantial military history with extensive maps and illustrations. The example image fixes attention on Stalingrad just before the Soviet encirclement of the German Sixth Army, when both armies appeared to face disaster. Its visual and documentary detail connects operational movements with the wider Soviet experience of the war. The book provides a broad, deeply documented account of the Eastern Front.
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Absolute War as an in-depth Eastern Front study
Chris Bellamy's Absolute War is introduced as a map-rich, detailed account of the Soviet Union in the Second World War.