Вяземская катастрофа. Страшнейшая трагедия войны

The Vyazemsky catastrophe of 1941 became one of the worst tragedies of the Great Patriotic War, comparable in scale only to the defeat of the Western Front in the first days of the war and the Kyiv cauldron. After this defeat, the fate of Moscow literally hung in the balance. Only at the cost of colossal effort and huge sacrifices was it possible to restore the front and prevent the fall of the capital. In Soviet times, it was not customary to remember this tragedy - the scale of the defeat, the numbers of losses, and gross miscalculations of the command were hushed up. In the book of L.N. Lopukhovsky, the story of the Vyazemsky catastrophe is for the first time told without omissions and embellishments, at the highest professional level, with the involvement of recently declassified documents of the warring parties. This work is the best study to date of the circumstances and causes of one of the most crushing defeats of the Red Army, a tribute to the memory of all those who died near Vyazma in that terrible autumn of 1941 ...