"Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East" is the second to be completed in a projected three-volume history of the German-Soviet conflict in World War II. The first, "Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East," covered the Soviet Army's liberation of its own territory and its drive across central and southeastern Europe. In the present volume, the German and Soviet forces initially confront each other on the approaches to Moscow, Leningrad, and Rostov in the late-1941 battles that produced the first major German setbacks of the war and gave the Soviet troops their first tastes of...