1941 German attack on Moscow was WWII's turning point [video 93min]

Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War is Rodric Braithwaite's social history of Germany's 1941 attack on Russia. The author, a former British ambassador in Moscow, describes the attack as the turning point of World War II and uses interviews and diaries to describe the personal reactions of several people affected by the invasion. Almost one million Russians died by the end of the year. Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow from 1988 to 1992. He is also the author of Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down. This event was hosted by the Harriman Institute on the campus of Columbia University in New York City.