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When Titans Clashed

How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

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When Titans Clashed

By: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
Narrated by: James Romick
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Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, this new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time.

In 1941, when Pearl Harbor shattered America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flew above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that destroyed the Germany Army and put an end to Hitler's imperial designs. Drawing on the massive and unprecedented release of Soviet archival documents, David Glantz and noted military historian Jonathan House expand and elaborate our picture of the Soviet war effort.

Rafts of newly available official directives, orders, and reports reveal the true nature and extraordinary scale of Soviet military operations as they swept across the 1,000 miles from Moscow to Berlin, featuring stubborn defenses and monumental offensives and counteroffensives and ultimately costing the two sides combined a staggering 20 million casualties.

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Too old to read this monumental work I bought the Audible edition to listen to and was happy to ignore as best I could the rather unfortunate quirk the narrator has of putting the word 'the' before many military units.
As a better explanation let me write it thus --- referring to the Red Army's Sixth Guards Tank Army he names it Sixth 'the' Guards Tank Army -- a short while later we hear of Katutov's 1st 'the' Gaurds Tank Army.
Annoying to listen to and even the 'spell checker' tries to eliminate it. Other units are similarly pre-fixed with a 'the' where it should not be. What makes it worse is that it is not a consistent quirk but occurs frequently.

Apart from that, this volume is rightfully described as one of the seminal works analyzing the entire scope of the Russian Front.

Strange reading habit of the narrator.

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Very balanced and shook loose many of the myths spread by the Germans and the western forces about Stalin and Russian am capabilities.
Only thing that rankled was the last sentence describing the Russia that ultimately failed as being the end of the the first Marxist state.
The Soviet Union once controlled by Stalin and the party bureaucracy were in no way Marxist. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky would have called it a State Capitalist country.

Excellent book

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terrible reading. the clown who reads is too busy trying to manage the dulcet tones while spraying consonants around like a complete idiot.

terrible reading. the reader puts an "a" everywhere eg "the a 8 a tank a army".

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I liked everything especially from the Russian point of view. It explains the cold war

Russian history

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Just for the record, I love history, particularly military history, and I suppose that I was expecting something gripping, gut wrenching and memorable like Dan Carlin’s recounting of the Ostfront.
I gave up on this after 4 hours because it is boring and monotonous, and and everything that a history should not be. Particularly a history of such a momentous event.
Sorry. But give me Dan Carlin. Please.

Give me Dan Carlin, please.

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