Georgy Zhukov. The King's Last Argument

The book is dedicated to investigating the art of command of our country’s national hero—Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. The author presents G.K. Zhukov’s activity as a “crisis manager” of the Red Army, who was sent to the most difficult and dangerous parts of the front to stabilize the situation or solve assigned tasks with minimal losses. Alexey Isaev puts into circulation a large amount of factual and statistical material about the battles in which G.K. Zhukov participated, starting with the battles near the border and the Battle of Smolensk. The book offers readers a new concept of the Battle of Stalingrad, destroying stereotypes about the form and scale of the fighting that had been held for decades. For the first time in historical literature, detailed data are provided on losses of Soviet tank armies in the Berlin operation. The book is structured as a debate with publications from recent years that criticized the activities of G.K. Zhukov. Relying on documents, the widely spread myths about the “race to Berlin,” the bloody battle at the Seelow Heights, positional battles near Moscow and Rzhev, as well as Zhukov’s activities as Chief of the General Staff in the last pre-war months and the first weeks of the war, are exposed.