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|title=Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War

|author=Rodric Braithwaite

|date=March 2007

|isbn=978-1861977748

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In the summer of 1941, the Wehrmacht attacked Russia. Woefully unprepared, the Russians lost territory the size of France within weeks. By November, the Germans were almost knocking at Stalin's door, only fifteen miles from Moscow and within artillery distance of the Kremlin. In ''Moscow 1941'' former Soviet ambassador Rodric Braithwaite argues that this battle for Moscow, culminating in the first defeat for the Wehrmacht, was the defining moment of World War II.