The original caption to this photograph reads: "150 kilometres to
Moscow" -but the winter was coming.
Operation Typhoon took German troops to the outskirts of the city,
close enough to see the spires, but the arrival of Russian General
Georgi Zhukov and a 6 December counterattack knocked the cup from the
German lips. They would not get a second chance
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