The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II -- the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. From the time Hitler launched his assault on Moscow on September 30, 1941, to April 20, 1942, seven million tr[...]
Hitler's rise to power, Germany's march to the abyss, as seen by Americans--diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes--who watched horrified and up close.Some of the Americans in Hitler's Germany were merely casual observers, others deliberately blind, a few were Nazi apologist[...]
Hitler's rise to power, Germany's march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans--diplomats, military officers, journalists, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes--who watched horrified and up close. By tapping a rich vein of personal testimonies, Hitlerland offers a gripping narrati[...]
Some of the Americans in Weimar and then Hitler's Germany were merely casual observers, others deliberately blind; a few were Nazi apologists. But most slowly began to understand the horror of what was unfolding, even when they found it difficult to grasp the breadth of the catastrophe. Among the jo[...]
'A new and beautifully researched account of what had been a poorly understood part of the war' New York Review of Books 'A fine diplomatic and military history, but its real triumph is in the voices of the survivors of the Battle of Moscow' Washington Post The Battle for Moscow, which took place fr[...]