Cornell Studies in Security Affairs: Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939 (Paperback)

from Shrike58

This monograph bears close study in that the author puts a lot of meat on the bones of the history of the mechanization of warfare by the leading practitioners. If nothing else Habeck spent a lot of time in Russian archives, and it shows in the depth that she is able to go to in documenting the c...

from Shrike58

This monograph bears close study in that the author puts a lot of meat on the bones of the history of the mechanization of warfare by the leading practitioners. If nothing else Habeck spent a lot of time in Russian archives, and it shows in the depth that she is able to go to in documenting the c...

from barbatus

The book is well written and argumented; a "must read" for anyone interested in the interwar history of the USSR and Germany. What's surprised me, though, is the vitality of the myth of the so called Tukhachevskii's "military genius." This legend is based solely on a fallacy: Stalin was bad; Stal...