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At the end of Sept 1941, greater than a million German troops lined up over the frontline just 180 mls west of Moscow. They were well trained, assured, and had good reasons to trust that the warfare in the East would be over with one last offensive. Facing them was an similarly large Soviet push, but whose troops were neither as well trained nor as assured. Once the Germans struck, devastation soon befell the Soviet defenders. German panzer spearheads slice through adversary defenses and thrust deeply to encircle most of the Soviet troops on the methods to Moscow. Within a few weeks, most of them marched into captivity, where a grim fate anticipated them. Despite the overwhelming primary German success, however, the Soviet capital didn't fall. German fight devices as well as resource transfer were bogged down in mud caused by fall months rains. Standard Zhukov was called back to Moscow and given the desperate job to recreate security lines west of Moscow. The mud allowed him time to accomplish this, so when the Germans again began to attack in November, they found stiffer resistance. Even so, they arrived perilously close to the capital, if the vicissitudes of weather got cooperated, could have seized it. Though German devices were also fighting desperately right now, the Soviet build-up soon exceeded their own. The Drive on Moscow: Procedure Taifun, 1941 is dependant on numerous archival files, personal diaries, letters, and other resources. It recreates the struggle from the point of view of the troops as well as the generals. The struggle, not fought in isolation, got an essential role in the overall German strategy in the East, and its own outcome discloses why the inability of the German assault on Moscow may well have been true turning point of World Warfare II. Niklas Zetterling is a researcher at the Swedish Security College. Along with Anders Frankson he has recently written Kursk 1943: A Statistical Examination and The Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Military in the East, 1944. Both creators currently reside in Sweden.
