Boris Shaposhnikov - The Battle for Moscow. Moscow operation of the Western Front November 16, 1941 - January 31, 1942

A General Staff study written before later ideological mythmaking

Boris Shaposhnikov - The Battle for Moscow. Moscow operation of the Western Front November 16, 1941 - January 31, 1942.
A leather-bound gift book.

The Battle for Moscow is a military-strategic study devoted to the Moscow operation of the Western Front in the period from November 16, 1941 to January 31, 1942. This is a unique publication, written hot on the heels of events, and published for official use in 1943. The work was written by officers of the General Staff under the general editorship of Marshal of the Soviet Union Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov. Thanks to this, she avoided the ideological layers and myth-making typical of Soviet military historiography, and retained a professional approach to assessing the actions of the warring parties. The Battle for Moscow is an important source of information for historians, researchers and anyone interested in the history of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War. This is a unique publication that allows you to see the events of those times through the eyes of direct participants and eyewitnesses.