I see you have been reading the history books that were printed in the USSR. And on yea, Putin is a pip-squeak.
He concludes that it was the Soviet Union which defeated the Nazi war machine, with the British and Americans providing little more than “a sound supporting role” in the European theatre. Lest he seem a revisionist leftist or left-over Stalinist or a cranky anti-American, he is not. As an Oxford don who made his reputation with God’s Playground, a fine history of Poland, he simply wants a history stripped of nationalistic bias. Europe at War is the latest installment in his efforts to emphasise the importance of the “peripheries” in contemporary history.
- Reviewer, Michael Cook on
Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory Wednesday, 14 February 2007
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You don't need to BS the folks about the publisher. The publisher is MacMillan. What? Do you take us for fools?