Deadlock Before Moscow

Franz Kurowski uses first—person accounts, and never before published documentation to present this, the turning point of the war in Russia.

One of these events, the attempt of the Red Army to cut off and destroy the panzer formations far advanced before Moscow, is little known.

In January 1942, when the 3rd, 4th, and 22nd Soviet Shock armies set out from the Army Group North area to the south and attacked Kholm, Toropets, Demidov, Vitebsk, and Belikie Luki, in order to roll over the rear...