Suvorov, Viktor (pseud.); [Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun]; Beattie, Thomas B. (Translator) — Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Hamish Hamilton First British Edition "Claims Stalin intended to use Nazi Germany as an 'icebreaker' to smash through the rest of Europe, intending the USSR to swoop in and conquer the weakened, warring capitalist nations afterword." - Wikipedia. "For the first time, a historian - Soviet defector Viktor Suvorov - shows that the USSR's part in starting WWII was much greater, and much more sinister, than has hitherto been assumed. A direct and often harrowing challenge to accepted history. Its achievement is to force us all to revise radically our ideas of - and the reasons for - the most destructive war mankind has ever experienced." - dust jacket. "Viktor Suvorov is a former Soviet GRU officer and author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army. After defecting to the U.K. 1978, he began writing about his own experiences and the structure of the Soviet military, intelligence, and secret police." - Wikipedia. First published in France in 1988. xxiv, 364 p. Index. Three maps. Black and white photographic plates. Very clean, bright, tight and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A high-quality example of this rare and most controversial work.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Icebreaker Viktor Suvorov Stalin Hitler WWII WW2 History Conspiracy History Russia Germany Communism USSR Europe Politics Great Britain