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Russia at War, 1941–1945

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The eye-witness reporting in the book is first-class, and it is this which supplies the bulk and the substance; in this sense, the book ought to be appreciated as a personal memoir of life in Stalin's wartime Russia, and, as such, it is a great success... Mr. Werth's human judgments are excellent,
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Mr. Werth may not be a historian of the highest order, but he is a journalist of superior quality. Some of his personal descriptions of things seen-for example, Stalingrad after the battle-are memorable.
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The worthwhile portions of the book-and they are well worth reading-are those in which Werth reports his conversations or personal observations on the spot.
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The reviewers have generally praised Werth for his personal observations, but have been more critical of his research, analysis and use of other sources.
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but his political verdicts are, in the absence of weightier proof, questionable
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in which he describes his experiences as a correspondent for the
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Alexander Werth
Russia in World War II
OCLC
785129392
Alexander Werth
BBC
Sunday Times
Soviet Union
"Russia at War 1941–1945 and Hitler's War on Russia: The Story of the German Defeat in the East"
doi
10.2307/2609831
ISSN
1468-2346
JSTOR
2609831
"Russia at War, 1941-1945. Alexander Werth"
doi
10.1086/239984
ISSN
0022-2801
"Book Review: Military and Scientific Affairs: Russia at War 1941–1945"
doi
10.1177/002070206602100118
S2CID
148732023
"Russia at War, 1941–1945"
doi
10.1086/ahr/71.1.262
ISSN
0002-8762

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