Stalin's Generals by Harold Shukman
Dr Harold Shukman, author and editor of books on the Russian Revolution, has assembled an international group of distinguished military historians. Their portraits of some 25 generals- and a final chapter in those purged in 1937-38, Stalin's Ghosts- throw light on the relations between a new miltiary elite anda totalitarian leader, at a time when the very existence of the Soviet state wasin the balance.