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(Not Doppelganger but...)I think thatit should be taken as a gives that all memoirs from the German and Russian sides were not "vetted" as much for accuracy to ths standards that we have come to expect. If, by noting the date of Alan Clark's Barbarosa one may take it that the onformation may be dated, then of course the same will hold true of 'memoirs'. (In "A War to be Won" the authors call Guderian's memoirs one of the most self serving of all the German memoirs). Zhukov's seem to be not much better. Still taken as a whole, the German's did perform very well against the odds, what is not generally recognized as well as it should that, after an appalling start an losses, the Russians did learn from the earlier actions, adapted their tactics and improved. It still does not seem that the general impression of the Russian Army is unfair. I defer to Max Hastings Armageddon for his assessments of the Ruusian, American, British and Germans. Best JWC