Mayer, S. L. (ed.), — THE RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE 1917-1945.
Bison Books, London, 1989, reprint, 257pp, numerous col'd and half tone photo ills., drawings maps and tables in text, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd eps., pictorial dustwrapper, oversize (12 x 8.5 inches), the work of several authors, an account the the Russian armed forces from the birth of the Red Army in 1917 to 1945, surviving Stalin's purge of the officers in the 1930's and appalling losses against the German invader in 1941 to produce one of the most formidable war machines of WW2, with details of the Winter War against Finland and plans and accounts of the major land battles of WW2, faint foxing upper edge, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
