The Retreat : Hitler's First Defeat (Hardcover)

from Richard.Hargreaves

Another book on the Battle for Moscow in 1941 you cry? No, not just another book on Moscow. Some focus on the political background, some on the grand strategic picture. Jones takes you to where the battle was won and lost: at the front. Indeed, this is a book not about the city (as many accounts ...

from Richard.Hargreaves

Another book on the Battle for Moscow in 1941 you cry? No, not just another book on Moscow. Some focus on the political background, some on the grand strategic picture. Jones takes you to where the battle was won and lost: at the front. Indeed, this is a book not about the city (as many accounts ...

from agingcow2345

Decent retelling of the 1941-1942 Moscow Campaign from original sources. However its defects are several. It repeats over and over incidents designed to show the senseless brutality of both sides, especially the Nazis. The incidents blend together and extreme repetition adds little to the story. ...

from JesperCFS2

I really don't know why I keep reading books about the war on the Eastern Front. It is grim reading of atrocities, death and human suffering of an incomprehensible magnitude. But still the topic is fascinating, and I read books like this with horrified fascination. Maybe in the hope to get an ans...

from JesperCFS2

I really don't know why I keep reading books about the war on the Eastern Front. It is grim reading of atrocities, death and human suffering of an incomprehensible magnitude. But still the topic is fascinating, and I read books like this with horrified fascination. Maybe in the hope to get an ans...