Svetlana Aleksandrovna Gerasimova is a historian and museum
official. After graduating from Leningrad State University with a
history degree, she worked in the Urals as a middle school history
teacher, before moving to Tver, where she taught a number of
courses in history and local history, and about museum work and
leading excursions in the Tver' School of Culture. She earned her
Ph.D. in history from Tver State University in 2002. For more than
20 years, S.A. Gerasimova has been working in the Tver' State
Consolidated Museum, and is the creator and co-creator of a many
displays and exhibits in the branches of the Museum, and in
municipal and institutional museums of the Tver' Oblast. Recent
museum exhibits that she has created include "The Battle of Rzhev
1942-1943" and "The Fatal Forties … Toropets District in the Years
of the Great Patriotic War." She has led approximately 20
historical and folklore-ethnographic expeditions in the area of
Tver' Oblast and is the author of numerous articles in such
journals as Voprosy istorii [Questions of History],
Voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv [Military History Archive],
Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal [Journal of Military History] and
Zhivaia starina [The Living Past], and of other publications. In
2009, she served as a featured consultant to a Russian NTV
television documentary about the Battle of Rzhev, which quickly
became controversial for its very frank discussion of the
campaign.
Stuart Britton is a freelance translator and editor residing in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has been responsible for making a growing
number of Russian titles available to readers of the English
language, consisting primarily of memoirs by Red Army veterans and
recent historical research concerning the Eastern Front of the
Second World War and Soviet air operations in the Korean War.
Notable recent titles include Valeriy Zamulin's award-winning
'Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July
1943: An Operational Narrative ' (Helion, 2011), Boris
Gorbachevsky's 'Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on
the Eastern Front 1942-45' (University Press of Kansas, 2008) and
Yuri Sutiagin's and Igor Seidov's 'MiG Menace Over Korea: The Story
of Soviet Fighter Ace Nikolai Sutiagin' (Pen & Sword Aviation,
2009). Future books will include Svetlana Gerasimova's analysis of
the prolonged and savage fighting against Army Group Center in
1942-43 to liberate the city of Rzhev, and more of Igor Seidov's
studies of the Soviet side of the air war in Korea, 1951-1953.
Stuart Britton is a freelance translator and editor residing in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has been responsible for making a growing
number of Russian titles available to readers of the English
language, consisting primarily of memoirs by Red Army veterans and
recent historical research concerning the Eastern Front of the
Second World War and Soviet air operations in the Korean War.
Notable recent titles include Boris Gorbachevsky's Through the
Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front 1942-45
(University Press of Kansas, 2008) and Yuri Sutiagin's and Igor
Seidov's MiG Menace Over Korea: The Story of Soviet Fighter Ace
Nikolai Sutiagin (Pen & Sword Aviation, 2009). Future books will
include Lev Lopukhovsky's detailed study of the Soviet disaster at
Viazma in 1941, Svetlana Gerasimova's analysis of the prolonged and
savage fighting against Army Group Center in 1942-43 to liberate
the city of Rzhev, and more of Igor Seidov's studies of the Soviet
side of the air war in Korea, 1951-1953.
'It is of utmost importance that books like this are written which
uncover massive human tragedies like the Battle of Rzhev.'-- "Books
Monthly"
" ... the author not only meets her objectives but has done an
enormous service to those of us interested in this phase of the
Second World War-- "Globe at War"
"... a slim volume that goes over many of the operations undertaken
by the Red Army in and around the Rzhev salient, which also
highlights the numerous issues Soviet/Russian and western
historians face when attempting to research and write about certain
battles/campaigns of the Great Patriotic War...numerous passages
that offer new, original, and a somewhat objective look at how the
Red Army performed throughout 1942 and 1943, and what Soviet
commanders considered their weaknesses and strengths. ....the
information presented makes it obvious that there are still many
questions that historians cannot adequately answer without relevant
access to Soviet era archives.-- "Kunikov's Reviews"
"... a testament to one of the most forgotten of battles of the
eastern front in the Second World War."-- "War in History"
"...this is an outstanding piece of historical research worthy of
any library or collection. It provides valuable insight into the
Soviet war leadership and operational execution. Her work is very
balanced and insightful. The Rzhev campaign was a slaughter in
every sense of the word. Survivors from both sides recalled the
fighting years later as the worst they had experienced at any time
throughout the war."-- "Sabretache"
"As Gerasimova observes, recent work on the Russo-German War of
1941-45 is rewriting the Soviet version of the war. Her work
certainly makes a major contribution to this ongoing effort."--
"The Russian Review"
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