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03929aam a2200517 i 4500 001 78455DFAFF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 190422s2019 nyuabf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019004678 020 $a 0190061014 020 $a 9780190061012 035 $a (OCoLC)1110125814 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d VP@ $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- $a n-us--- $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a D790 $b .P64 2019 082 00 $a 940.54/497309477 $2 23 100 1 $a Plokhy, Serhii, $d 1957- $e author. 245 10 $a Forgotten bastards of the Eastern Front : $b American airmen behind Soviet lines and the collapse of the Grand Alliance / $c Serhii Plokhy. 246 30 $a American airmen behind Soviet lines and the collapse of the Grand Alliance 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xiv, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "At the conference held in Tehran in November 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was for the US Air Force to establish bases in Soviet-controlled territory, in order to "shuttle-bomb" the Germans from the Eastern front. For all that he had been pushing for the United States and Great Britain to do more to help the war effort--the Soviets were bearing the heaviest burden in terms of casualties--Stalin balked at the suggestion of foreign soldiers on Soviet soil. His concern was that they would inflame regional and ideological differences. Eventually in early 1944, Stalin was persuaded to give in, and Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated in the Poltova region (in what is today Ukraine). As Plokhy's book shows, what happened on these airbases mirrors the nature of the Grand Alliance itself. While both sides were fighting for the same goal, Germany's unconditional surrender, differences arose that no common purpose could overcome. Soviet secret policeman watched over the operations, shadowing every move, and eventually trying to prevent fraternization between American servicemen and local women. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the limitations of Soviet air defenses. Relations soured and the operations went south. The story of the American bases foreshadowed the eventual collapse of the Grand Alliance and the start of the Cold War. Using previously inaccessible archives, Allies and Adversaries offers a bottom-up history of the Grand Alliance, showing how it first began to fray on the airfields of World War II."-- $c Provided by publisher. 611 27 $a World War (1939-1945) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180924 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, Russian. 650 0 $a Air bases $z Ukraine $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Ukraine. 651 0 $a United States $x Relations $z Soviet Union. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Relations $z United States. 650 7 $a Air bases. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00802224 650 7 $a International relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977053 650 7 $a Military operations, Aerial $x American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710199 650 7 $a Military operations, Aerial $x Russian. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710226 651 7 $a Soviet Union. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210281 651 7 $a Ukraine. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01211738 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 653 $a Operation FRANTIC 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191204013907.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=78455DFAFF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search