MOSCOW 1941: A CITY AND ITS PEOPLE AT WAR

Author: Rodric Braithwaite

Publisher: Profile Books

Year published: 2006

Pagination: 398pp. Maps

Condition: Very good in d/w

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A narrative of 1941 and the Battle of Moscow fought over a territory the size of France. It cost the Russians as many casualties as the British lost in the whole of the World War I and it marked the first strategic defeat the Wehrmacht had suffered in its hitherto unstoppable march across Europe. The book offers verbal portraits of Stalin and his generals, some apparatchiks, some great commanders. It also traces the stories of soldiers, politicians and intellectuals, writers and artists and dancers, workers, schoolchildren and peasants