Rogachevsky knot. From defense to offensive

To the 80th anniversary of the battle for Moscow!
December 12, 1941, the famous message of the Swinformburo "at the last hour sounded. The defeat of the Nazi troops near Moscow? ” So, the whole world learned that “by the end of December 11, 1941, General Lelyushenko’s troops, knocking down the 1st Panzer, 14th and 36th motorized divisions of the enemy and occupying Rogachev, surrounded G. Klin ...”. This book in all details tells about the little-known episodes of defensive and offensive battles during the battle for Moscow, in which the 30th Army of the Western Front participated. At the end of November 1941, her left -flank group defended the Dmitrov direction, and in early December participated in the offensive on the wedge. One of the episodes of the offensive operation of the army D.D. Lelyushenko was the struggle for the Rogachevsky Wehrmacht defense unit.
Using the example of these heavy battles, it was shown as Soviet troops carried out the transition from defense to the offensive. For the first time, on the basis of the analysis of Soviet and German archival documents, the course of defensive and offensive actions of the Levoflanger group of the 30th Army and its contribution to the victory over the Nazis in the battle for the capital of the USSR was described. The pages of the book include numerous examples of the exploits of the Red Army fighters and commanders. The story of the struggle for the Rogachevsky knot is accompanied by cards illustrating every day of the operation