Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles [Paperback]

Considered by some to be the greatest general of World War II, General Georgi Zhukov served as the Chief of Staff of the Soviet High Command, leading Soviet troops against Germans in key battles of the war. In his account of four major campaigns in the war—the defense of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk, and the advance on Berlin—Zhukov describes his experiences preparing for German attacks, organizing counter-strikes, assessing the enemy, and issuing the orders that pushed the front west, towards Germany's capital. Zhukov also tells of his extensive arguments with Stalin during the war, and the political alliances and rivalries among the U. S. S. R.'s generals throughout the conflict.Georgi K. Zhukov (1896-1974) was one of the most important Soviet military commanders of the twentieth century. Harrison E. Salisbury (1908-1993) was the author ofBlack Night, White SnowandThe 900 Days. David M. Glantz, editor ofThe Journal of Slavic Military Studies, lives in Carlisle, PA, near Harrisburg.For anyone seriously interested in the history of the second world war it is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the very few books… that are of crucial importance.Probably the single most important memoir by a Russian military leader to reach the general public in the West.