The collapse near Moscow. Field Marshal von Bock and Army Group Center. 1941-1942. Turni A.

The Colonel of the American Army and a military historian, Professor Alfred Turni conducts a study of the Campaign Campaign Complex 1941-1942. On the territory of the USSR, using as the main source of information - the military diary of General - Field Marshal von Boka. The command of the Army Group Center, led by von Bok, one of the most famous military leaders in Germany, was entrusted with the mission of invasion of central Russia and the capture of Moscow. Within six months, despite the bad roads and insufficient supplies, conflicts with Hitler and the supreme command of the army, cruel weather and stubborn resistance of the Soviet troops, von Bok kept his armies on the approaches to Moscow. It was here, near Moscow, Germany suffered the first in the whole war and the most serious defeat that sounded a funeral ringing for the German military machine.