Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943.(Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943)(Book review)

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COLOSSUS REBORN: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943, David M. Glantz, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2005, 807 pages, $39.95.

Colossus Reborn is about the successful transformation of an Army at war. This second volume in a trilogy about the Red Army that covers the period 1941 to 1943 is detailed and thought-provoking.

David M. Glantz's first book, Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War (University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1998), analyzed the Red Army on the brink of World War II. This volume includes the disastrous defeats at the hands of the ...

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