LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Second World War: Soviet Union
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East of Suez is a 64-page scenario book for the Second World War at Sea series. It covers the British Pacific Fleet in the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the last years of World War II plus the Soviet Pacific Fleet. Articles and scenarios describe the operations executed and those planned by the British Eastern and Pacific Fleets from 1943 to 1946.Includes with the scenario book are 210 mounted and die cut counters.
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The commitment of resources and the destruction brought about by the Second World War far exceeded anything seen before or since as did the scope and magnitude of the war itself. The human toll of the Second World War was frightful. As many as 50 million military personnel and civilians were killed, some 14 million in the Soviet Union alone. Military casualties were heavy on both sides. The Germans lost 3.25 million combatants dead and another 7.25 million wounded; the Italians 149, 496 dead and 66, 716 wounded; and the Japanese 1.27 million dead and 140, 000 wounded. Allied casualties were equally heavy.
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Fresh research shapes a fascinating yet ... devastating portrait of Russian infantrymen in World War II. Josef Stalin and his successors made sure the story of Soviet history in the war was crafted and protected in a way that served their political purposes. Great monuments were built, but documents were sealed. Pensioned soldiers and their families were honored as "heroes," but they were kept from telling of experiences that might have deviated from the official line - especially anything traumatic. Historians, Russian and foreign, were prevented from working independently.
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The third component of world war was the largest and most sanguinary of all. Hitler's appetite for imperial conquest had always been directed eastwards to the USSR with its vast supplies of food, materials, manpower, and territory to colonize. In December 1940 Hitler turned away from Britain and approved BARBAROSSA, the large-scale invasion of the USSR. The motives for the contest were not only imperial. Soviet communism represented a profound social and political threat and Hitler, an ardent anti-communist throughout the inter-war years, saw the final contest with Marxism as a necessity. Following the German-Soviet pact of 1939 the threat became greater.
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