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  The Retreat: Hitler's First Defeat (Hardback) By (author) Michael Jones

  

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  Short Description for The RetreatThe thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern Front
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  • Publisher: John Murray General Publishing Division
  • Published: 12 November 2009
  • Format: Hardback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Battles & Campaigns | General & World History | European History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Military History | Second World War
  • ISBN 13: 9780719569524 ISBN 10: 0719569524
  • Sales rank: 8,537

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• At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous occurred: Moscow was saved. Yet this turning point was followed by a long retreat, in which Russian forces, inspired by old beliefs in the sacred motherland, pushed back German forces steeled by the vision of the ubermensch, the iron-willed fighter. Many of Russia's 27 million military and civilian deaths occurred in this desperate struggle. In THE RETREAT, Michael Jones, acclaimed author of LENINGRAD, draws upon a mass of new eye-witness testimony from both sides of the conflict to tell, with matchless vividness and comprehensiveness, of the crucial turning point of the Second World War - the moment when the armies of Hitler could go no further - and of the titanic and cruel struggle of two mighty empires.