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Retreat from Moscow : reconceiving Germany's winter campaign, 1941-1942 / David Stahel.

Author/creator Stahel, David, 1975- author.
Format Book and Print
EditionFirst edition.
Publication Info New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Copyright Notice ©2019
Description545 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Portion of title Reconceiving Germany's winter campaign, 1941-1942
Contents Hungry as a bear: the Soviet counteroffensive begins -- Dodging the Soviet bullet: Army Group Centre holds -- Between the hammer and the anvil: Army Group Centre Between Hitler and Stalin -- Keeping the wolf from the door: the panzer groups retreat from Moscow -- Digging in his heels: Hitler orders a halt -- Put to the sword: the end of Brauchitsch -- The bear without any claws: the inadequate Red Army -- The battle of nerves: Army Group Centre on the brink -- The more the merrier: Christmas 1941 and the supply crisis -- Playing with fire: Guderian gets burned -- Turning the screws: Ninth Army's near collapse -- Rank and file: soldiering in Army Group Centre -- Reinforcing failure: Stalin's January offensive -- Hanging in the balance: Fourth Army's impending encirclement -- The flood gates are breaking: Ninth and Fourth Panzer Armies rupture -- Making a virtue of necessity: surviving the Russian winter -- Defending the indefensible: Hitler's last stand -- Lonely front: embattled homeland -- Retreat and counterattack: Army Group Centre rebounds -- Departing the Eastern Front: treacherous routes of escape -- The last hurrah: the failure of the Soviet Winter Offensive -- Conclusion.
Abstract "A gripping and authoritative revisionist account of the Soviet Winter Offensive of 1941-1942."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2019019746
ISBN9780374249526 hardcover
ISBN0374249520 hardcover

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