Russia's War: Blood upon the Snow Book

Fifty years after the end of World War II, historians now are coming to the consensus that Russia played the decisive role in the defeat of Hitler. At least 25 million Soviet soldiers and civilians perished at home and on the battlefield in the bloodiest struggle of our century. Questions persist about how that defeat was achieved. Was Stalin a military genius? Was the defense of Mother Russia a product of something greater than numbers of tanks and planes - of something deep within the Russian soul? Were the Olympic battles of the Eastern front - Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk - won by the superior strategies of Stalin's generals? Hitler's armies were stopped only a few miles short of Moscow. Was Russia more prepared for the Nazi invasion than previously assumed?