The Last Frontier — Russia
A Soviet rifle battalion holds their position on the road to Moscow in November 1941, refusing to retreat against overwhelming German armoured forces — a story of ordinary soldiers in the war's most desperate hours.
In November 1941, German forces reached their closest point to Moscow — approximately 8 km from the city's suburbs at Khimki. The Soviet 16th Army and militia units halted the German advance in brutal fighting around Volokolamsk, buying time for Siberian reinforcements to arrive. The German Operation Typhoon's failure before Moscow was the first major strategic defeat of the war.