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It was Zhukov who saved Leningrad from capture by the Wehrmacht in September 1941, Zhukov who led the defense of Moscow in October 1941, Zhukov who spearheaded the Red Army’s march on Berlin and formally accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender in the spring of 1945. Drawing on the latest research from recently opened Soviet archives, including the uncensored versions of Zhukov’s own memoirs, Roberts offers a vivid portrait of a man whose tactical brilliance was matched only by the cold-blooded ruthlessness with which he pursued his battlefield objectives. After the war, Zhukov was a key player on the geopolitical scene. As Khrushchev’s defense minister, he was one of the architects of Soviet military strategy during the Cold War. While lauded in the West as a folk hero—he was the only Soviet general ever to appear on the cover of Time magazine—Zhukov repeatedly ran afoul of the Communist political authorities. Wrongfully accused of disloyalty, he was twice banished and erased from his country’s official history—left out of books and paintings depicting Soviet World War II victories. Piercing the hyperbole of the Zhukov personality cult, Roberts debunks many of the myths that have sprung up around Zhukov’s life and career to deliver fresh insights into the marshal’s relationships with Stalin, Khrushchev, and Eisenhower. A remarkably intimate portrait of a man whose life was lived behind an Iron Curtain of official secrecy, Stalin’s General is an authoritative biography that restores Zhukov to his rightful place in the twentieth-century military pantheon.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781400066926","publication_date":"20120605","publisher":"Random House Publishing Group","slug":"stalin-s-general","subtitle":"The Life of Georgy Zhukov","title":"Stalin's General"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"HIS010010","confidence_band":"low","label":"Eastern European History","score":0.6696,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027100","confidence_band":"low","label":"World War II History","score":0.6686,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027370","confidence_band":"low","label":"World War II: European Theater","score":0.6584,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"HIS010010","confidence_band":"low","label":"Eastern European History","score":0.6696,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027100","confidence_band":"low","label":"World War II History","score":0.6686,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027370","confidence_band":"low","label":"World War II: European Theater","score":0.6584,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"BIO008000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Military Lives","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027100","confidence_band":"high","label":"World War II History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS032000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Russian History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Eastern European History","score":0.6696,"slug":"eastern-european-history"},{"label":"World War II History","score":0.6686,"slug":"world-war-ii-history"},{"label":"World War II: European Theater","score":0.6584,"slug":"world-war-ii-european-theater"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers who enjoy Eastern European History","Good for fans of History","Good for readers who enjoy Eastern European History and World War II History."],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Vasily Grossman","Luba Vinogradova","Antony Beevor"],"book_id":"9780307275332","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780307275332.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","score":12.0883,"title":"A Writer at War","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780307275332"},{"authors":["Sean McMeekin","Kevin Stillwell","Basic Books"],"book_id":"9781541672772","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781541672772.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","score":9.3073,"title":"Stalin's War","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781541672772"},{"authors":["Antony Beevor"],"book_id":"9780140284584","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780140284584.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","score":8.8752,"title":"Stalingrad","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780140284584"},{"authors":["Buzz Bissinger"],"book_id":"9780062879929","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780062879929.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","score":8.8565,"title":"The Mosquito Bowl","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780062879929"},{"authors":["Andrew Roberts","Stephen Thorne","Penguin Audio"],"book_id":"9781101980996","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781101980996.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","score":8.7254,"title":"Churchill","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781101980996"},{"authors":["John Keegan"],"book_id":"9780143035732","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780143035732.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","score":8.7133,"title":"The Second World War","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780143035732"},{"authors":["Robert L. 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