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Scorched Earth: The Russians on the Soviet-German War, 1941–1945
J. Mark Mazower exposes the Soviet-German war as a ruthless battle between two totalitarian regimes, each bent on reshaping society through terror and control. This wasn’t just about armies clashing—it was a brutal ideological fight with civilians caught in the crossfire. What happens when two brutal visions collide on a scale unlike any other war?
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