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    Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin---the Eastern Front, 1941-1945
    Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin---the Eastern Front, 1941-1945
    Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin---the Eastern Front, 1941-1945
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    Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin---the Eastern Front, 1941-1945

    Written by John Mosier

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

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    John Mosier presents a revisionist retelling of the war on the Eastern Front. Although the Eastern Front was the biggest and most important theater in World War II, it is not well known in the United States, as no American troops participated in the fighting. Yet historians agree that this is where the decisive battles of the war were fought. The conventional wisdom about the Eastern Front is that Hitler was mad to think he could defeat the USSR because of its vast size and population, and that the Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point of the war. Neither statement is accurate, says Mosier; Hitler came very close to winning outright.

    Mosier's history of the Eastern Front will generate considerable controversy both because of his unconventional arguments and because he criticizes historians who have accepted Soviet facts and interpretations. Mosier argues that Soviet accounts are utterly untrustworthy and that accounts relying on them are fantasies. Deathride argues that the war in the East was Hitler's to lose, that Stalin was in grave jeopardy from the outset of the war, and that it was the Allied victories in North Africa and consequent threat to Italy that forced Hitler to change his plans and saved Stalin from near-certain defeat. Stalin's only real triumph was in creating a legend of victory.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 16, 2010
    ISBN9781400187362
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    John Mosier

    John Mosier is a professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans.  He is the author of four books of military history: The Myth of the Great War, The Blitzkrieg Myth, The Generalship of U. S. Grant, and Cross of Iron. He has appeared on the BBC, Fox News, the History Channel, Sky News, and Comcast. An active film critic (he served on the Camera d'Or jury at the Cannes Film Festival), he has also written over 100 articles on film for Kino, Americas, Variety, and the New Orleans Arts Review.  He lives in Jefferson, Louisiana.

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    • 5/5
      Highly recommend for those looking to expound the details of any type of relations between Germany and Russia/Soviet Union from late 1930’s to the end of WW2. The focus stays firm in regards to that subject.
    • 2/5
      I personally think the audiobook is biased , It is established though by the author that any history is biased and what is recorded in history books can be very different to what happened. Herein the Author is admitting that his revision of history could be equally as flawed, John mosier says ' he criticizes historians who have accepted Soviet facts and interpretations. Mosier argues that Soviet accounts are utterly untrustworthy and that accounts relying on them are fantasies.' therein lies the bias , Having a total disregard for someone that was there and saying he won't accept a single word from soviet accounts he is admitting he is blatantly disregarding what could be real truth to replaced by his own fantasy of what he would have liked the war to be

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Right from the beginning, the author tells the readers that history of wars is flawed and immediately goes to his selling point. This is a Subjective propaganda leaflet. Not more.

      1 person found this helpful