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STALINS WAR - SEAN MCMEEKIN KARTONIERT (TB)

World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil 
with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict
erupted in Asia--and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in
multiple theaters  his empire did not span the Eurasian continent  and he did not inherit any
of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Josef Stalin. The Second World War was not
Hitler's war  it was Stalin's war. Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet  European  and
US archives  Stalin's War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving
its epicenter to the east. Hitler's genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon  but
as McMeekin shows  the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted
not Hitler. So  too  did the Pacific war of 1941-1945 fulfill Stalin's goal of unleashing a
devastating war of attrition between Japan and the "Anglo-Saxon" capitalist powers he viewed as
his ultimate adversary. McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued
by the US and Britain's self-defeating strategic moves  beginning with Lend-Lease aid  as
American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin's war
machine  McMeekin shows  was substantially reliant on American matâeriel from warplanes  tanks
trucks  jeeps  motorcycles  fuel  ammunition  and explosives  to industrial inputs and
technology transfer  to the foodstuffs that fed the Red Army. This unreciprocated American
generosity gave Stalin's armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia  from
Berlin to Beijing  for Communism. A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War 
Stalin's War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current world order. --

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