# The Retreat

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- Book: [The Retreat](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-e-jones/the-retreat) ([The Retreat.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-e-jones/the-retreat.md))
- Authors: [Michael Jones](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-e-jones)
- Publisher: john_murray
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4854-354-6
- Published: 2009-11-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.