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# Stalin's war of nerves
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/stalins-war-of-nerves/
- Published: 2008-01-21T18:01:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T02:14:53.000Z
- Description: Just been reading Andrew Nagorski's The Greatest Battle, which covers much the same ground as Rodric Braithwaite's Moscow 1941, published two years ago, though Nagorski's double focus on Stalin and Hitler brings out the odd symmetry of a grand climacteric.
- Author: Hugh Barnes
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:31, #appended-excerpt

Just been reading [Andrew Nagorski's *The Greatest Battle*](http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/182238/?ref=opendemocracy.net), which covers much the same ground as Rodric Braithwaite's [Moscow 1941](http://www.profilebooks.co.uk/title.php?titleissue%5Fid=409&ref=opendemocracy.net), published two years ago, though Nagorski's double focus on Stalin and Hitler brings out the odd symmetry of a grand climacteric.

Just been reading [Andrew Nagorski's *The Greatest Battle*](http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/182238/?ref=opendemocracy.net), which covers much the same ground as Rodric Braithwaite's [Moscow 1941](http://www.profilebooks.co.uk/title.php?titleissue%5Fid=409&ref=opendemocracy.net), published two years ago, though Nagorski's double focus on Stalin and Hitler brings out the odd symmetry of a grand climacteric.