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Vitold
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30.04.2008 20:54:57
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Re: Evan Mawdsley
>нужна оценка книги Evan Mawdsley "Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945".
>Может кто нибудь читал эту книгу - просьба поделится впечатлениями о ней.
Не читал, но отзывы на Амазоне ободряющие - автор пользуется Кривошеевым для анализа потерь, объясняет, почему нельзя было помочь Варшавскому восстанию и почему оно началось именно тогда а не позднее.
Т.е. расхожие мифы западных исторегов вроде б не поддерживает, что уже хорошо.
Но подозреваю, что ничего нового не открывает. Может быть полезна для отсылки англофонов к более-менее нормальным источникам.
Отзывы, если кому интересно:
http://www.amazon.com/Thunder-East-Nazi-Soviet-War-1941-1945/dp/0340613920
World War II historians have attempted to provide different explanations for the survival of the Red Army in 1941 and 1942, despite horrendous losses, and then its reemergence and resurrgence in 1943, leading to the defeat of the German armed forces in 1945. Mawdsley shows that rather than a single explanation, a number of factors were at work, depending on the period of the war, including the quantity of troops and equipment, the quality of technology, and the industrial capabilities of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.
The author doesn't shy away from addressing the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and the deliberate elimination of Jews and Red Army prisoners by the German army working willingly alongside the SS. Accordingly to Mawdsley, some 500,000 Jews were murdered outright by mobile SS killing units and other Nazi police units, assisted by the German Army, in the first sweep of killing in the USSR.
In his conclusion the author discusses the cost of the war to the Soviet Union, noting that some 27 million Soviet citizens were killed, including 10 million Red Army soldiers. The war damaged the USSR more than it damaged Germany and cost the country ten years development. "It is probably also true," writes Mawdsley, "that the Soviet economy never recovered from the war." And he makes it clear that a Wehrmacht victory in Russia would have been far worse for both the Russians and the rest of Europe and the world.
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