Russia's War Blood Upon The Snow Author:Richard Overy Fifty years after the end of World War II, historians now are coming to the consensus that Russia played the decisive role in the defeat of Hitler. At least 25 million Soviet soldiers and civilians perished at home and on the battlefield in the bloodiest struggle of our century. Using material available only since the end of the Cold War, the ... more »author writes: "The conflict was fought on such a gigantic scale and with such an intensity of feeling that conventional historical discourse seems ill-equipped to convey either very satisfactorily. Little, perhaps nothing, of the experience of most Western readers and historians will have prepared them for what they will find in the history of Russia's war." "A penetrating and compassionate book." (New York Times Book Review)« less