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Marshal Zhukov: The Man Who Beat Hitler. By Albert Axell. London: Pearson Longman, 2003. ISBN 0-582-77233-8. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Select bibliography. Index. Pp. viii, 255. L19.99.
The author/editor has provided the reader with a useful compilation of quotations arranged more or less in chronological order concerning Marshal Zhukov. Many come from Zhukov's publications. Others come from a wide variety of "experts." There is little formal documentation. Internal documentation is frequent, "x says" and often "x admits," which brought forth memories of Progress Publisher translations of Soviet works in the Gold War era. The Russian equivalent of "admit" has numerous shades of meaning and the Russian translators hopefully meant corroborated rather then admitted. The author has relied almost exclusively on secondary sources. One of the dangers is that the works are often unreliable. For example, Hitler is quoted as saying that Kursk...