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World War II: Victory of Steel and Ice

Posted by Matt in October 13th, 2007

The title of Nagorski’s book, The Greatest Battle, is likely to raise eyebrows, but it shouldn’t. As he points out, the fighting around Moscow was “inarguably the largest battle between two armies of all time,” involving a total of 7 million soldiers. If casualties are the standard, the Battle of Moscow — where 1.9 million Soviets and 600,000 Germans were killed, captured or badly wounded — surpasses Stalingrad, Gallipoli, the Somme or El Alamein. Strategically, it was when the German juggernaut came to a halt, “the first turning point” of World war II, in Nagorski’s words, if not the war’s most decisive encounter.

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[Countries link to CIA Factbook. States link to Wikipedia.]

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