![]() ![]() ![]() Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.Īt Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC. The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II Andrew Nagorski. This event is free to attend with no reservation required. These actions not only doomed the Third Reich, they accelerated the Holocaust, set the ground for the postwar division of Europe, and led to the Cold War. The Greatest Battle Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski. ![]() But hubris, not military wisdom, led Germany to declare war on the Soviet Union and the U.S. The Greatest Battle by Andrew Nagorski, September 18, 2007, Simon & Schuster edition, Hardcover in English. ![]() That pivotal year started with Britain on its own, America standing back, and Stalin observing the Nazi-Soviet Pact while the Nazis made tremendous gains by bombing London and sinking British and American ships. Read 70 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Building on his study of 1940, The Greatest Battle, where he argued that the Nazis lost their first major fight due to Hitler’s flouting of his generals’ advice, Nagorski, a long-time Newsweek journalist, traces a series of disastrous decisions the Führer made in 1941. Word War II went on until 1945, but as Nagorski shows in this deeply researched study, Germany essentially sealed its fate in 1941. ![]()
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