One of the famous Victory marshals – Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky was in the years of Khrushchev’s rule and later in the shadow of history. But his role in the Great Patriotic War and in the Soviet-Japanese wars is difficult to overestimate. According to the contribution to the defeat of German fascism, it is quite possible to put on a par with G.K. Zhukov. Of course, they were in many respects different – both in a warehouse of characters and in the image of thinking. It is no accident that I.V. Stalin once said: “If you combine Zhukov and Vasilevsky together, and then divide in half, we would have received the two best commanders. But there is no way in life.”
The writer-historian N.T. Velikanov reliably traces the life and activity of the son of a priest who has become an outstanding Soviet commander, from birth to the last days. This is an honest story about an outstanding military leader and at the same time an ordinary person: about his military successes and failures, about the confidential attitude towards him of the “father of the peoples” and the hostility of Nikita Khrushchev, and “sharp corners” of him … his … his …
Author
Velikanov Nikolay Timofeevich
Editor
Nikiforova I.I.
Publisher
Young Guard, 2014
Series
The life of wonderful people
16+
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