Igor Sdvizhkov: Prelude to Stalingrad [2019] paperback Condition:New waged politically

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Igor Sdvizhkov: Prelude to Stalingrad [2019] paperback Condition:New waged politicallyIn the summer of 1942, the Germans launched Case Blue, a strategic offensive into the Caucasus, a region rich in oil, birthplace of Stalin, and gateway to Iran and the Middle East, where the Germans could obtain more oil, cut off a vital corridor for Lend Lease supplies to the Soviets, threaten the British Empire, and even perhaps link up with the Japanese (then advancing in Burma toward India). It was a pivotal moment of World War II, which history