Journalist and foreign correspondent Nagorski combines published
sources and interviews in this history of what he calls the largest,
deadliest and most decisive battle of WWII. The often cited Russian
winter did not account for the battle's outcome, he asserts, nor did
German military overstretch. The tide wasn't turned by Hitler's
increasingly erratic command decisions either. Moscow, Nagorski argues,
was won by the Soviet government, the Red Army and the Russian people.
Stalin's decision to stay in the city provided a rallying
point—otherwise his mistakes as a commander and his brutality as head
of state might have handed the Germans a victory they couldn't win in
combat. A Red Army still learning its craft lost more than two million
soldiers before Moscow, many of whom were victims of teenaged officers
and obsolete weapons, failed tactical doctrines and logistical systems.
Even the vaunted Siberian divisions were short of everything, including
winter clothes, as they fought in sub-zero temperatures. Nor were
Moscow's residents the united folk of Communist myth. Nagorski's
sources luridly describe panic, looting and wildcat strikes as the
Germans approached. Still, he concludes that whatever the shortcomings
of Moscow's defenders, their deeds don't require heroic myth: the truth
is honorable enough.
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