Stalin's Defectors

Stalin''s Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union''s ''Great Patriotic War'' against the Nazis in 1941-1945. No other Allied army in the Second World War had such a large share of defectors among its prisoners of war. Based on a broad range of sources, this volume investigates the extent, the context, the scenarios, the re...