![]() ![]() This triggered panic in the city-with looting, strikes, and outbreaks of previously unimaginable violence. Stalin's blunders, incompetence, and brutality made it possible for German troops to approach the outskirts of Moscow. The full story of this epic battle has never been told because it undermines the sanitized Soviet accounts of the war, which portray Stalin as a military genius and his people as heroically united against the German invader. This shattered Hitler's dream of a swift victory over the Soviet Union and radically changed the course of the war. But the Soviet capital narrowly survived, and for the first time the German Blitzkrieg ended in failure. The combined losses of both sides-those killed, taken prisoner, or severely wounded-were two and a half million, of which nearly two million were on the Soviet side. From the time Hitler launched his assault on Moscow on September 30, 1941, to April 20, 1942, seven million troops were engaged in this titanic struggle. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II-the biggest battle of all time. ![]() The bestselling first authoritative account of the first colossal World War II battle between Germany and the USSR-based on previously unavailable documents, this is the battle that decided the war, and the one that Stalin tried to cover up. ![]()
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