Introduction
Of Horses and Men: The Red Army of the Late 1920s
Tanks, Aircraft and 'Deep Battle': The Red Army Transformed 1928-1936
The 'Enemy' within: The Red Army during and in the Aftermath of the Great Purges, 1937-1940
More than Manoueuvres: Red Army Experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan
Khalkin Gol
Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: Soviet Military Equipment and the Small Wars of the 1930s
Voroshilov's 'Lightning' War: The Soviet Invasion of Poland
The Finnish Debacle
Reform and the Road to War
'Barbarossa': From Minsk to Smolensk
'Barbarossa': From Smolensk to Moscow
The End of 'Typhoon'
Lost Opportunity
More Men, Women and Machines
"Not a step back!"
Change at the Top
Stalingrad and 'Uranus'
The Wrath of the Gods
The Defence of the Kursk Salient and the Battle for Prokhorovka
To the Dnepr and Beyond
The Ten 'Stalinist' Blows of 1944
The End in Sight
The Fall of Berlin and the End of the Reich
Conclusion.