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ZHUKOV, GEORGI K.

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ZHUKOV, GEORGI K.
(1896 - 1974) Soviet Field Marshall, perhaps the greatest general of World War II, he survived crushing poverty and Stalin's purges to command the Russian armies at the monumental battles of Moscow and Kursk, and in the taking of Berlin. Typed D.S. 1p. 4to., Kiev, Nov. 28, 1940, in Russian and marked ""SECRET"" at top. The document orders that twelve men be transferred from their existing posts to new posts, setting forth their names, backgrounds, party membership, and so on. Typically signed in indelible pencil, binding holes at extreme left margin affect nothing, trimmed very slightly along right margin.