Chris Ward is University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Stalin's Russia.

Numerous books have been written about the Western Front, but Chris Ward’s is not like any other … [This is a] challenge to the historian’s traditional effort to impose in the process of writing a structure on the chaos of historical traces and sources

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction MapsGlossaryAnnals & StoriesList of Correspondents, Diarists & MemoiristsNotesList of Works Cited

Chris Ward is University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Stalin's Russia.

Numerous books have been written about the Western Front, but Chris Ward’s is not like any other … [This is a] challenge to the historian’s traditional effort to impose in the process of writing a structure on the chaos of historical traces and sources

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction MapsGlossaryAnnals & StoriesList of Correspondents, Diarists & MemoiristsNotesList of Works Cited

Chris Ward is University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Stalin's Russia.

Numerous books have been written about the Western Front, but Chris Ward’s is not like any other … [This is a] challenge to the historian’s traditional effort to impose in the process of writing a structure on the chaos of historical traces and sources

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction MapsGlossaryAnnals & StoriesList of Correspondents, Diarists & MemoiristsNotesList of Works Cited