Good morning. The Michigan War Studies Review has published my review of Lev Lopukhovsky's The Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941: The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon. For readers possessing a bit of background knowledge on the subject matter this is a superb book offering new insight into one of the most important campaigns of the Second World War.

If you are interested in how and why the Wehrmacht during Operation Typhoon was able to wreck the most powerful Fronts in the Red Army then I cannot recommend this book enough. In addition, note that it is a far superior work of scholarship than that recently done on the same subject matter by David Stahel (whose book on Operation Typhoon I also reviewed last year). In particular Lopukhovsky offers a number of fresh insights that Stahel either chose to ignore or simply missed.