The Drive on Moscow 1941: Operation Taifun and Germany's First Great Crisis of World War II

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Автор: Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson

Название: The Drive on Moscow 1941: Operation Taifun and Germany's First Great Crisis of World War II

Издательство: Casemate Publishing

ISBN: 1480406627

Год: 2012

Формат: Epub

Страниц: 336

Размер: 2 Mb

Язык: English

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive. Facing them was an equally large Soviet force, but whose soldiers were neither as well trained nor as confident. When the Germans struck, disaster soon befell the Soviet defenders. German panzer spearheads cut through enemy defenses and thrust deeply to encircle most of the Soviet soldiers on the approaches to Moscow. Within a few weeks, most of them marched into captivity, where a grim fate awaited them.