Stalingrad
In June 1941, German forces swept across Soviet territory in an offensive that finally brought them within twenty-five miles of Moscow. But in August 1942, the overconfident Hitler chose the wrong target, Stalin?s namesake city on the Volga. The battle of Stalingrad is extraordinary in every way: th...
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Penguin Books,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Stalingrad
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Preface
- Double-edged sword of Barbarossa
- Nothing is impossible for the german soldier!
- Smash in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down!
- Hitler's hubris: Delayed battle for Moscow
- Barbarossa relaunched: General Paulus's first battle
- How much land does a man need?
- Not one step backwards
- Volga is reached!
- Fateful city: Time is blood: September battles
- Rattenkrieg
- Traitors and allies
- Fortresses of rubble and iron
- Paulus's final assault
- All for the front!
- Zhukov's trap: Operation Uranus
- Hitler's obsession
- Fortress without a roof
- Der manstein kommt!
- Christmas in the German way
- Subjugation of the sixth army air-bridge
- Surrender out of the question
- German field Marshal does not commit suicide with a pair of nail scissors!
- Stop dancing! Stalingrad has fallen
- City of the dead
- Sword of Stalingrad
- Appendix A: German and soviet orders of battle, 19 November 1942
- Appendix B: Statistical debate: Sixth army strength in the kessel
- references
- Source notes
- Select bibliography
- Index.
