Retreat from Moscow : reconceiving Germany's winter campaign, 1941-1942 /
A gripping and authoritative revisionist account of the Soviet winter offensive of 1941-1942.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Hungry as a bear: the Soviet counteroffensive begins
- Dodging the Soviet bullet: Army Group Centre holds
- Between the hammer and the anvil: Army Group Centre Between Hitler and Stalin
- Keeping the wolf from the door: the panzer groups retreat from Moscow
- Digging in his heels: Hitler orders a halt
- Put to the sword: the end of Brauchitsch
- The bear without any claws: the inadequate Red Army
- The battle of nerves: Army Group Centre on the brink
- The more the merrier: Christmas 1941 and the supply crisis
- Playing with fire: Guderian gets burned
- Turning the screws: Ninth Army's near collapse
- Rank and file: soldiering in Army Group Centre
- Reinforcing failure: Stalin's January offensive
- Hanging in the balance: Fourth Army's impending encirclement
- The flood gates are breaking: Ninth and Fourth Panzer Armies rupture
- Making a virtue of necessity: surviving the Russian winter
- Defending the indefensible: Hitler's last stand
- Lonely front: embattled homeland
- Retreat and counterattack: Army Group Centre rebounds
- Departing the Eastern Front: treacherous routes of escape
- The last hurrah: the failure of the Soviet Winter Offensive
- Conclusion.