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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465391703321

Autore

Stahel David <1975->

Titolo

Operation Typhoon : Hitler's march on Moscow, October 1941 / / David Stahel [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23844-7

1-107-30193-9

1-107-50195-4

1-107-31477-1

1-107-30597-7

1-139-54730-5

1-107-30922-0

1-107-30702-3

1-299-25738-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 412 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

940.54/2173

Soggetti

Moscow, Battle of, Moscow, Russia, 1941-1942

Moscow (Russia) History, Military 20th century

Vi︠a︡zʹma (Smolenskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) History, Military 20th century

Bri︠a︡nsk (Russia) History, Military 20th century

Tula (Russia) History, Military 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Glossary -- Tables of Military Ranks and Army Structures -- Contextualizing Barbarossa -- Operation typhoon -- Viaz'ma and Briansk -- Carnage on the road to Moscow -- Bock's final triumph -- Exploiting the breach -- Weathering the storm -- Running on empty -- The eye of the storm.

Sommario/riassunto

In October 1941 Hitler launched Operation Typhoon the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and



three of Germany's four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in huge victories at Viaz'ma and Briansk - among the biggest battles of the Second World War. David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged. Germany's hopes of final victory depended on the success of the October offensive but the autumn conditions and the stubborn resistance of the Red Army ensured that the capture of Moscow was anything but certain.