
Retreat from Moscow
A New History of Germany’s Winter Campaign, 1941-1942
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Narrated by:
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Matthew Waterson
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By:
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David Stahel
Germany's winter campaign of 1941-1942 has commonly been seen as its "first defeat". In Retreat from Moscow, David Stahel argues that, in fact, it was its first strategic success in the east. Though the Red Army managed to push the Wehrmacht back from Moscow, the Germans lost far fewer men (one to six), frustrated their enemy's strategic plan, and emerged in the spring unbroken and poised to recapture the initiative.
Hitler's new strategic plan called for holding important Russian industrial cities, which the German army would do. And the Soviet plan as of January 1942 aimed for nothing less than the destruction of Army Group Centre, but in fact, not a single German army, corps, or division was ever successfully destroyed. Lacking the professionalism, training, and experience of the Wehrmacht, the Red Army mounted an offensive that attempted to break German lines in countless head-on assaults, which led to far more tactical defeats than victories.
Through journals, memoirs, and wartime correspondence, Stahel takes us into the Wolf's Lair and reveals a German command at war with itself. And through soldiers' diaries and letters home, he paints a rich portrait of life and death on the front, where the men of the Ostheer fight against frostbite as much as they do Soviet artillery.
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It can be overwhelming at times. The story, though detailed in December to nearly day by day events, moves along at a furious clip and yet he never slides downhill into the land of Glantz or Forcyzk so you don't have to wade through ration returns or number of artillery rounds of each caliber fired by a certain anti tank unit. What keeps it going is the excellent narrator. Matthew Waterson is masterful in accent, tone, irony, humor and earnestness.
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If you're choosing between Michael Jones and David Stahel... choose Stahel!
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This book absolutely stands what I thought I knew about this campaign on its head. Amazing research and research that led to the development of a new understanding of this campaign. I highly recommend this book and all of Stahel’s titles. He writes so well.
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