Rokossovsky: Blade and Rod
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Rokossovsky: Blade and Rod
24.99 €
A Pole, baptized into Orthodoxy, who went to the front in World War I at a young age. A Red Army commander, an excellent cavalryman, capable not only of leading troops but also of being the first to rush into the thick of the fighting. Warsaw, Dauria, Mongolia, Belarus, and—the NKVD prison on Shpalernaya Street in Leningrad. Then came the bloody battles on the Yartsevo Heights, the tragedy near Vyazma, and the Battle of Moscow. He was valued by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, respected by his colleagues, and beloved by women. Among the military leaders of the Great Patriotic War, he stood out not only for his military talent but also for his sublime human culture. He was Stalin's most charming Marshal, which, however, did not stop him from crushing the enemy in the Battle of Stalingrad and Kursk, in Belarus, Pomerania, and East Prussia. This book, which completes a trilogy of biographies of the great commanders who crushed the German Wehrmacht, contains much previously unknown information and documents that shed light on controversial chapters of history, including Rokossovsky's Polish period. The author has managed to discern in him not only the soldier and great commander but also the man, and this is perhaps the most valuable aspect of this book.
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