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  • The Retreat

  • Hitler's First Defeat
  • By: Michael Jones
  • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
  • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)
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Summary

The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern Front.

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 eyewitness 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.
©2009 Michael Jones (P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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  • Categories: History
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Interesting anecdotes

A series of interesting anecdotes collected from various primary sources. Lacking in narrative direction and tension. Seemed very short as well. Not on a par with something like Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad. An easy listen but did not really come away greatly enlightened.

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