MOSCOW TO STALINGRAD: DECISION IN THE EAST

Author: Earl F Ziemke and Magna E Bauer

Publisher: Military Heritage Press

Year published: 1988

Pagination: xv + 558pp, 92 photos, 44 maps, glossary, tables of codenames

Condition: Near fine in protected d/w

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In this authoritative account of the critical turning points of the Russian campaign the authors present the German and Soviet forces initial confrontation on the approaches to Moscow, Leningrad, and Rostov. The late-1941 battles produced the first major German setbacks of the war and gave the Soviet troops their first tastes of success, but later, the pendulum swung to the German side, as, during the summer of 1942, their armies raced across the Ukraine and into the Caucasus. The book covers operations from the defeat at the gates of Moscow to the surrender of the 6th Army at Stalingrad and includes the campaign to take Crimea and Sebastopol, the beginnings of the partisan movement, the campaign into the Kuban and Caucasus and the prolonged battle for Stalingrad itself.