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World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees |
The recent opening up of Soviet archives reveals that contemporary eyewitnesses rated Stalin as the most accomplished and efficient of the four western war leaders. Not that he was by any means infallible - the massacre of Polish officers was a major blunder and the German invasion left him in fear of a coup - but after consolidating his power he was then almost constantly underestimated by both Allies and Axis alike to their ultimate cost.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 56 Spring 2010 ) |
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