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ICEBREAKER
Who Started the
Second World War?
Viktor Suvorov
Translated by Thomas B. Beattie
HAMISH HAMILTON
London
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For my brother
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Published by the Penguin Group
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Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, USA
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Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
First published in France by Editions Olivier Orban 1988
First published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1990
Copyright (C) Viktor Suvorov, 1990
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All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may
be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means
(electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both
the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
Filmset in Linotron Bembo at The Spartan Press Ltd, Lymington, Hants.
Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0-241-126223
By the same author
THE LIBERATORS
INSIDE THE SOVIET ARMY
SOVIET MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
AQUARIUM
SPETSNAZ
List of Maps
Destruction of the Red Army's Defensive System
MAP I
First Strategic Echelon of the Red Army
MAP 2
MAP 3
Preparations to Destroy the Rumanian Oil-fields
List of Illustrations
Icebreaker in Action
Soviet Tanks
Soviet Parachutists
In Training
Winged Tank KT/A-40
Invasion Preparations
BT Soviet Tanks
Exercises in Bridge-building
Marshal Timonshenko and Marshal Zhukov Troops Ready for an Offensive
KV-1 Tank
GULAG Prisoner
Contents
List of Maps
vii
List of Illustrations
ix
To the Reader
xv
Maps
xix
CHAPTER 1
The Road to Happiness
1
CHAPTER 2
The Main Enemy
8
CHAPTER 3
Why Arms for the Communists?
14
CHAPTER 4
Why Stalin Partitioned Poland
25
CHAPTER 5
The Pact and its Results
31
CHAPTER 6
When Did the Soviet Union Enter World War II?
37
CHAPTER 7
`Extending the Foundations of War'
47
CHAPTER 8
Why Howitzer Artillery for the Chekists?
58
CHAPTER 9
Why the Security Zone was Dismantled on the Eve of War
67
CHAPTER 10
Why Stalin Abolished the Stalin Line
82
CHAPTER 11
Partisans or Saboteurs?
100
CHAPTER 12
Why Did Stalin Need Ten Airborne Assault Corps?
107
CHAPTER 13
The Winged Tank
115
CHAPTER 14
On to Berlin
121
CHAPTER 15
The Marine Infantry in the Forests of Byelorussia
131
CHAPTER 16
What are 'Armies of Covering Forces'?
135
CHAPTER 17
Mountain Divisions on the Steppes of the Ukraine
151
CHAPTER 18
The Purpose of the First Strategic Echelon
163
CHAPTER 19
Stalin in May
166
CHAPTER 20
Words and Actions
182
CHAPTER 21
Living Peaceably with Sharp Teeth
188
CHAPTER 22
The TASS Report
195

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