Barbarossa: The Russian German Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780304358649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 560 str.

Alan Clark

Opis

Alan Clark vividly narrates the course of the dramatic and brutal war between the German and Russians on the Eastern Front during World War II. From the invasion of Russia mounted on Midsummer's Day 1941 and the German Army's advance to Moscow, to the terrible turning point of Stalingrad and the eventual defeat of the Nazis at the fall of Berlin after the hard years of fighting and advance by the Red Army, this is epic history narrated by a militray historian, diarist and politician.

O autorze

Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. He was the Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton (1972-1992) and for Kensington and Chelsea (1997-1999). He held various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments. He kept a regular diary, which was published in three volumes as IN POWER 1983-1992, INTO POLITICS 1972-1982 and THE LAST DIARIES 1993-1999. They were adapted for television by the BBC and shown in 2004. Clark died in 1999 of a brain tumour.