Marshal of victory

A headline in the Arts&Books section in today's Irish Times runs:

"The most important general you've never heard of?"

The article is a review of the newly published autobiography of Georgii Zhukov, edited by Geoffrey Roberts of University College Cork.

Marshal Timoshenko said of Zhukov that he was the only person who feared no one. He was not afraid of Stalin.

Book reviewer David Murphy argues that this new edition of his autobriography will give the reader an insight into one of the most important figures in the history of the second World War.