"Sobering. . . . A global view presented with remarkable clarity."
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The Boston Globe "Probably the best account of the Eastern Front we shall see until President Putin relaxes his newly imposed restrictions on foreign access to the files. . . . Bellamy has made a tremendous contribution to the record of Russia's struggle, for which future historians will owe a debt."
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The Sunday Times (London)
"Bellamy's treatment is authoritative, his judgments thorough and exacting, and his prose robust."
–The
Daily Telegraph (London)