Moscow - Stalingrad 1941-1942: Recollections - Stories - Reports

by Georgi K. Zhukov and Alexander Vassilevsky

In the winter of 1941, 78 choice Nazi divisions, 1,700 tanks and over 1,000 planes were drawn up near Moscow to carry out Operation Typhoon. The Germans had come so close to Moscow that German could be heard on the radio on any wave length, and the very air was polluted by enemy breath. Leningrad, the second largest ctiy in the Soviet Union, was besieged, and the noose of the enemy blockade had tightened round it. The Wehrmacht commanders were planning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1410203719
• ISBN13: 9781410203717
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"