Forgotten bastards of the Eastern front
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The new book of the famous historian Sergei Parok is devoted to the little -known page of the Second World War - the history of the creation and activities of three US Air Force Bases in the Poltava region, “where Soviet and American soldiers lived and fought shoulder to shoulder” and from which shuttle bombing of objects in the axis countries were carried out. There are heroes of big politics who played important roles in the embodiment of the ambitious plan of shuttle bombing: Franklin Roosevelt, US Ambassador to the USSR Averal Harriman, General Dean, on the Soviet side - Joseph Stalin, the People"s Commissar of Vyacheslav Molotov, General Alexei Novikov, but also many thousands of people, but also many thousands of people. involved in the daily activities of bases. In this short time, they gained a tremendous experience of interaction and communication, which will affect their entire future life. The use of the vast archival materials of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR (counterintelligence Smersh), previously inaccessible to researchers, gives uniqueness to the work. This is a microhistory, in which, as in a drop of water, the deliberate doom of the initially brilliant plan was reflected
Author:
Author:Плохий С.Н.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Military Books
- Category:Historical Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-123476-8
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