PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : FORGOTTEN BASTARDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT PB

Εκδότης: PENGUIN
Συγγραφέας: SERHII PLOKHY
Isbn: 9780141991108
Διαστάσεις: 198Χ130Χ22
Αριθμός σελίδων: 384
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 5/8/2020
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Περιγραφη

"'Many books claim to tell an ""unknown"" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets was to open a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservations about the presence of foreign troops in Russia, he was persuaded. Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated in early 1944 as B-17 Superfortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the Poltova region in today's Ukraine. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the gripping, little-known story of this encounter between American and Soviet soldiers and how their collaboration quickly fell apa