Absolute war soviet russia in the second world war chris bellamy on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers in absolute war acclaimed historian and journalist chris bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the soviet union of world war iis battle on the eastern front. Thus said a german officer about the battle of stalingrad in bellamys magisterial yet overwhelming chronicle of the soviet union in world war ii it is humankind that endured but at tremendous cost the second world war is known as the great patriotic war in russia and could be seen as the continuation of the 1812 napoleonic invasion. The battle on the eastern front between 1941 and 1945 was arguably the single most decisive factor of world war ii fixing the course of world history over the next half century now drawing on sources newly available since the collapse of the soviet union and the reunification of germany historian and journalist chris bellamy presents the first full account of this deadly conflictbellamy . In absolute war acclaimed historian and journalist chris bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the soviet union of world war iis battle on the eastern front one of the deadliest conflicts in history the conflict on the eastern front fought between the soviet union and nazi . The item absolute war soviet russia in the second world war chris bellamy represents a specific individual material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in brigham young university