In June 1941, one of the pivotal and defining moments of World War 2 occurred as the German forces swept eastwards from their lines in Poland and Central Europe, to take on the might of Soviet Russia. Over the next six months , Axis forces travelled ever eastwards, surrounding Leningrad and reaching the very gates of Moscow itself, before the harsh and unremitting Russian winter set in and the battle for life and death in the field became, for both sides, a war of survival against the elements.
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