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Using archival records from bothsides, in graphic day-by-day detail, they reconstruct a previously unstudied aspect of the Battle of Moscow. This is the dramatic story that Jack Radey and Charles Sharp tell in this compelling study of a pivotal battle in the struggle for supremacy in the East.

Instead it is clear that it was the resistance of this handful of Red Army men and women that halted their drive, along with German planning based on wishful thinking. According to German accounts, theirspearheads were stopped by the mud, but a close examination of German records undercuts this version of events.

All that stood in his way were a handful of Soviet rifle divisions, tank brigades and hastily assembled militia. This was Hitler's best opportunity to knock out the Soviet Union. Most of the Red Army's forces before Moscow had been smashed or encircled, no reserves were available to defend the capital. There was one point when Nazi Germany had its best chance of winning the Second World War on the Eastern Front – in mid-October 1941.

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