Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781612006710
Pub Date: 18 Jul 2018
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: Casemate Illustrated
Illustrations: 150 black and white photos, 12 color profiles and 2 maps
Description:
After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakeable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. On the face of it, it was an unequal struggle; Field Marshall Fedor von Bock had at his command disposal 1 million men, 1,700 tanks, 19,500 artillery guns and 950 combat aircraft – 50% of all the German men in Russia, 75% of all the tanks and 33% of all the planes. To defend Moscow, the Russians had under 500,000 men, fewer than 900 tanks and just over 300 combat planes.