Very good description of the destruction wrought by the winter fighting on the road from Moscow to Klin. The article does not have a byline indicating its contributor. I would not doubt that it was picked up from Alexander Werth, a British correspondent serving in Moscow. To the extent the Stalinist Soviets could “trust” a western correspondent, they trusted Werth and gave him access that other western correspondents (and even some of the allied military missions) could only dream of.
Werth’s account of his war time assignment is found in “Russia at War,” an excellent book on how the Soviets fought their desperate battle against the Germans. It is a must read for any serious student of the war in the east. Given some time I will post a few excerpts.
Very good description of the destruction wrought by the winter fighting on the road from Moscow to Klin.
Your two comments remind me of a big reason I enjoy doing these posts so much. I have read a little about the war on the eastern front, and a little about the war in North Africa, and a bit more about the war in the Pacific. But nowhere else have I been able to view the war in such full context. After the Coral Sea battle the focus shifted to the Kharkov-Crimea front so fast I almost got whiplash. I have now seen how the focus will revert to the Pacific in a few weeks, after resting for a spell on North Africa. I’ll bet there were lots of Americans who, as they tried to digest what they were reading about in the paper, started their own map rooms to help them keep it straight.
Not Homer’s father though. I recall from my own time in basic training that news from the outside world comes to a halt until it is over. So far he as missed the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, the Doolittle raid, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the renewed fighting in Russia. And if anything new develops before the end of July he will miss that too.