This article originally appeared in the Aug. 20, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov—by Geoffrey Roberts (Random House, $30). The most formidable Allied ...

APPOINTED Minister of Defense last week, and boss of all armed forces in the Soviet Union: Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 58. A thick-bodied Great Russian with broad Slav face and ...

Four times Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal Georgy Zhukov was the architect of the Red Army’s key victories over the Nazis during World War II. He was always dispatched to the most dangerous sectors ...

Georgy Zhukov fought back the Nazis and captured Berlin, but the great marshal fared worse in the dirty power struggle between communist bosses that came after the war. When Georgy Zhukov, the most ...

In December 1942, Field Marshal Zhukov’s picture appeared on the cover of Time magazine. He was described as “Stalin’s favourite”. It was dangerous as well as flattering to be so close to the Supreme ...

Worsening relations between the Allies after World War II meant no commerce between East and West. That was an issue for Soviet Gen. Georgy Zhukov, who came to like Coca-Cola during the war. The US ...

MARSHAL Georgy Zhukov is contemporary Russia’s national hero, seen as the man who defeated Hitler and saved Russia and Europe from the Nazis. His reputation is that of a Russian patriot and an ...

Right out of a brave regiment. He had barely arrived When he had to leave And his beauty-darling Sobs and cries Sobs and cries In the 10th Regiment of the Novgorod Dragoons, few were younger and none ...

Among the Allied generals of the second World War Georgy Zhukov is among the least known, far less familiar a figure than Eisenhower or Montgomery. Yet it could be argued that no other general made a ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

Georgy Zhukov certainly was, as Geoffrey Roberts puts it, "the great general who had saved the Soviet Union from catastrophic defeat by Hitler and then led the country to a great victory," but the men ...

It is a frivolous, almost crass question arising from the greatest carnage endured and prosecuted by mankind: who was the most important single figure in the Second World War? It is an inquiry to ...