↑ Bellamy, Chris Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War — Macmillan. — Б. xix. — 848 б. — ISBN 978-0-375-41086-4. — «That conflict, which ended sixty years before this book’s completion, was a decisive component — arguably the single most decisive component — of the Second World War. It was on the eastern front, between 1941 and 1945, that the greater part of the land and associated air forces of Nazi Germany and its allies were ultimately destroyed by the Soviet Union in what, from 1944, its people — and those of the fifteen successor states — called, and still call, the Great Patriotic War»