Operation Typhoon

Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941

De: David Stahel

Narrado por: Philip Battley

In October 1941, Hitler launched Operation Typhoon—the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and three of Germany's four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in huge victories at Viaz'ma and Briansk—among the biggest battles of the Second World War.

David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged. Germany's hopes of final victory depended on the success of the October offensive, but the autumn conditions and the stubborn resistance of the Red Army ensured that the capture of Moscow was anything but certain.

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Another Great Raed

Once again I am surprised by the author clear and detailed account of events, as well as it's attention to every detail of micro and macro around the war in the East

Amazing read on the beginning of the turning of the tide

This audiobook does an amazing job of telling the story of the ending of the German drive into central Russia! It provides deep details about the strategic blunders on both sides, while not losing sight of the human beings in the trenches and in the countryside.

Detail Not Seen Before on the German Defeat in Russia

Learned a lot. The detail is more than I have seen before. Gives you a much better perspective ON Why THE GERMANS FAILED & that the lack of supplies should have been obvious from the start.

Exhausting the Blitzkrieg

Delighted that all of Stahel’s works on the first year of the Russo-German War of 1941-45 are now recorded! A superb overview of the final desperate push towards Moscow, Operation Typhoon. A truly hallow victory- impressive numbers of booty yet still no closer to finally ending this war of annihilation. This round of German victories simply further blunted the tip of the German military spear. Dangling at the very end of its logistical tether, the Wehrmacht is bruised, bloodied, but refuses to admit it is beaten. Seemingly bereft of options, the only visible option is to push onward come the frosts of the Russian Winter.

Caricatures

I’ve read several books my David Stahel and the content in Operation Typhoon is just as high as his others. The performance by the narrator, however, is awful and I could not finish it. When reading regular prose, it’s fine, but any time a quote is read, the narrator falls into a stereotyped caricature of whatever nationality the quote is identified with. This is a nonfiction history. I do not need or want a frankly awful Italian / German / Russian / American Cowboy accent coloring the events being described. Why does every American sound like a cowboy? This is the first audiobook I have had to drop over the narration. It’s just that bad.

The German POV of difficulty

Lack good description of where the battles took place. Little good coverage of Soviet plans