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unsurpassed
The 900 Days
(New York: Harper & Row, 1969).
    18
G. K. Zhukov v Bitve pod Moskvoi: Sbornik Dokumentov
(Moscow: Mosgorarkhiv, 1994), docs. 3, 5, 7, 17.
    19 I. S. Konev, “Osen’u 1941 goda,” and G. K. Zhukov, “Vospominaniya Komanduushchego Frontom,” in
Bitva za Moskvu
, 3rd ed. (Moscow: Moskovskii Rabochii, 1975), pp. 55–56, 68–69. The first edition of this book was published in 1968. Before Konev’s article was published the editors sent a copy to Zhukov for comment. Zhukov responded vehemently, writing to the editors that Konev’s draft contained so many falsehoods, including in relation to his own appointment as commander of the Western Front, that if it was published as it stood he would withdraw his contributionto the book (RGVA, F. 41107, Op. 1, D. 77, L.8). In the event, Konev’s piece was published more or less unchanged, together with Zhukov’s own article.
    20 K. Simonov,
Glazami Cheloveka Moego Pokoleniya
(Moscow: APN, 1989), p. 364.
    21 See V. Krasnov,
Zhukov: Marshal Velikoi Imperii
(Moscow: Olma-Press, 2000), pp. 237–41. Vasilevsky’s version of events falls midway between Konev’s and Zhukov’s: “On 9 October during a routine conversation with the Supreme Commander the decision was taken to combine the Western and Reserve Fronts into the Western Front. All of us, including Konev … agreed with Stalin’s suggestion to appoint Zhukov commander of the combined front.” A. M. Vasilevsky,
A Lifelong Cause
(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981), p. 115.
    22 On Konev, see: O. Rzheshevsky, “Konev,” in H. Shukman (ed.),
Stalin’s Generals
(London: Phoenix, 2001) and J. Erickson, “Konev,” in Carver (ed.),
The War Lords
. Konev’s memoirs were published in English as
Year of Victory
(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969). The fuller version of the memoirs in Russian is: I. S. Konev,
Zapiski Komanduushchego Frontom
(Moscow: Voenizdat, 1981).
    23 Mawdsley,
Thunder in the East
, p. 95.
    24
G. K. Zhukov v Bitve pod Moskvoi
, doc. 23. On the panic in Moscow, see R. Braithwaite,
Moscow 1941
(New York: Knopf, 2006), chap. 12; A. Nagorski,
The Greatest Battle
(London: Aurum, 2007), chap. 7; and A. Werth,
Russia at War, 1941–1945
(London: Pan Books, 1965), pp. 224–33.
    25 W. J. Spahr,
Zhukov: The Rise and Fall of a Great Captain
(Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1993), p. 72. One version of Ortenberg’s memoir may be found in S. S. Smirnov et al. (eds.),
Marshal Zhukov: Kakim My Ego Pomnim
(Moscow: Politizdat, 1988).
    26
G. K. Zhukov v Bitve pod Moskvoi
, doc. 12.
    27 Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941, doc. 66.
    28 Ibid., doc. 32.
    29 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 2, p. 31.
    30 Ibid.
    31 J. Stalin,
On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union
(London: Hutchinson, 1943–44), pp. 21–23.
    32 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 2, p. 66.
    33
G. K. Zhukov v Bitve pod Moskvoi
, doc. 37.
    34 K. Rokossovsky,
A Soldier’s Duty
(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970), p. 78.
    35 Cited by O. P. Chaney,
Zhukov
, rev. ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), p. 179. This statement was omitted from the published edition of Rokossovsky’s memoirs.
    36 Ibid., pp. 85–86. In his memoirs Vasilevsky made a similar comment about Stalin during the battle of Moscow: “Stalin could be very irascible and abrasive; but even more striking was [his] concern for his subordinates at such a grave time.” Vasilevsky,
A Lifelong Cause
, p. 118.
    37 Vasilevsky,
A Lifelong Cause
, p. 121.
    38 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 2, pp. 44–46.
    39
Na Priyome u Stalina
, p. 355.
    40
G. K. Zhukov v Bitve pod Moskvoi
, doc. 62.
    41 D. Glantz,
Barbarossa: Hitler’s Invasion of Russia, 1941
(Stroud, U.K.: Tempus, 2001), p. 188.
    42 Cited by E. Mawdsley,
December 1942: Twelve Days That Began a World War
(London: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 219–20.
    43
Bitva za Moskvu: Moskovskaya Operatsiya