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Title: Marshal Zhukov
Review: A facinating subject for a biography, I bought it with enthusiasm and dived straight in the day it arrived. Sadly this book was a considerable disappointment. Thin and lacking in detail, but surely most surprisingly discussion of Zukovs greatest battles and tactics are almost completely absent.For example the 'chapter' dedicated to the tank battle at Kursk, the most important tank battle of WWII, totals a mere 7 pages, five discuss the set up for the battle, and two discuss the aftermath. Details about the actual battle are completely ommitted. The battles for Stalingrad and Berlin are likewise passed over in cursory fashion. The author Axell may argue that his book is a biography not a military history, but Zhukov was a general, if his actions and decisions on the battlefield aren't relevant then what is?I would have loved this to be a great book, regretably it is a very poor attempt.
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