British ‘Lend-Lease’ Aid to the USSR and the Battle of Moscow in the Light of Soviet and German Sources

Abstract

ABSTRACT In late 1941 British Lend-Lease aid was arriving in the Soviet Union in meaningful quantities and seeing frontline use against German forces. During this period the military initiative passed from Germany to the Soviet Union. British-supplied tanks and aircraft were helping tip the balance of forces in Soviet favor and attracting the attention of both German forces on the ground and their superiors. This article uses archival sources and memoirs — many of which have only have been made available to researchers in the last decade — to more deeply assess the impact of this aid on the fighting on the Eastern Front around the period of the Battle of Moscow than was possible in the authors’ previous works.