Sergei chulaki (5 resultados)

Condición: Fair. Acceptable condition. (Soviet Union, Heroes, Biography) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 180 pages. (SL#125/2).

No Jacket. Octavo hardcover (VG+) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Paperback. Condición: nrVG. 1st Edition. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Top of spine damaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Scarce hardcover, 279pp + 24 pages of b&w photos, NOT ex-library. No ISBN. Good reading copy; worn dust jacket. A cosmetic manufacturing flaw: faint blue offset marks - not obscuring the text - on 12 pages (pp. 221 & 224-225 & 228 & 233 & 236-237 & 240-241 & 244-245 & 248); faded old staining above the lower edge of rear blank endpaper. Unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Gentle internal creasing. Good secure binding. Dust jacket with extensive edgewear: tearing, areas of loss, scuffing, creasing; two small areas of sticker-damage on front panel; price in pen on the back. -- The history of World War 2 continues to fascinate scholars and writers, political leaders and statesmen, military specialists and laymen the world over. As before, it stirs people's hearts and minds. That lasting impact is due to the organic link between present-day developments and the realities of the past. This book gives the Soviet view of the causes, principal events and results of the war. the polemic against Western historians aims at a correct understanding of the lessons of the war and of the vital importance of the people's endeavours on behalf of detente, and international security for preventing another world Holocaust that might spell the end of civilisation. -- Contents: Introduction; 1. Could the Second World War Have Been Prevented? [Causes of the War; Two Worlds - Two Policies; A Stream of Lies and the Truth of History; Policy of Appeasement Bears Its Fruit]; 2. Aggression and Disaster [Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk; Liberation Mission of the Soviet Armed Forces; On the Soviet Contribution to the Victory Over Japan; Why is the Bourgeois Concept of 'Decisive Battles' Unfounded?]; 3. Sources of Victory Over the Aggressor [Economic Factor; Political Factor; Art of War; Vanguard of the People and the Army]; 4. The Second World War and Our Time [New Balance of Forces and the Myth of the Soviet Threat; Historians vs History]; Conclusion; Name Index. …