Название: The Retreat: Hitler's First DefeatАвтор: Jones Michael
Издательство: John Murray
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf, epub
Страниц: 303
Размер: 32,98 Мб
Язык: английский
At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous occurred: Moscow was saved. Yet this turning point was followed by a long retreat, in which Russian forces, inspired by old beliefs in the sacred motherland, pushed back German forces steeled by the vision of the ubermensch, the iron-willed fighter. Many of Russia's 27 million military and civilian deaths occurred in this desperate struggle.