| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Translator's Introduction -- Preface -- Part I: The Art of Sowing the Whirlwind -- Chapter 1 Thermite Rain -- Chapter 2 Heat. 'The Cauldron' -- Chapter 3 The Results of the Tank Battle in the Great Bend of the Don -- Chapter 4 The Elimination of the Sirotinskaya Bridgehead -- Chapter 5 Reinforced Defence I. Abganerovo -- Chapter 6 Serafimovich. The Foundation of Future Success -- Chapter 7 The Formation of the 'Northern Covering Detachment' |
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Chapter 8 Reinforced Defence II. Beketovka -- Chapter 9 Conclusions to Part I -- Part II: The Verdun of the Steppes -- Chapter 10 The Battle for the Semaphore. The Beginning -- Chapter 11 A City Under Siege -- Chapter 12 The First Assault on the City. 14-26 September 1942. The Beginning -- Chapter 13 The First Assault on the City. 14-26 September 1942. The Centre -- Chapter 14 The First Assault on the City. 13-26 September 1942. To the South of the Tsaritsa River -- Map section -- Plate section -- Chapter 15 The Battle for the Semaphore II. The Counterblow of 18-19 September 1942 |
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Chapter 16 The Second Assault on the City. 27 September-7 October 1942 -- Chapter 17 The Third Assault on the City. 14-19 October -- Chapter 18 The Fighting for the 'Red October' Factory -- Chapter 19 The Landing in the Latashanka Area -- Chapter 20 The Last Inch. November 1942 -- Chapter 21 Conclusions to Part II -- Part III: Hot Snow -- Chapter 22 The Father of the Gods: Uranus -- Chapter 23 The Tank Army. The First Success -- Chapter 24 Mechanized Pincers -- Chapter 25 The Failure of Winter Storm -- Chapter 26 The Hydraulic Press. Operation Ring -- Chapter 27 Conclusions to Part III |
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Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
So much has been written about the Battle of Stalingrad - the Soviet victory that turned the tide of the Second World War - that we should know everything about it. But the history of the war, and the battle, is evolving and is being written anew, and Alexey Isaev's engrossing account is a striking example of this fresh approach. By bringing together previously unpublished Russian archive material - strategic directives and orders, after-action reports and official records of all kinds - with the vivid recollections of soldiers who were there, in the front lines, he reconstructs what happened in extraordinary detail. The evidence leads him to question common assumptions about the conduct of the battle - about the use of tanks and mechanized forces, for instance, and the combat capability, and tenacity, of the defeated and surrounded German Sixth Army in the last weeks before it surrendered. His gripping narrative carries the reader through the course of the entire battle from the first small-scale encounters on the approaches to Stalingrad in July 1942, through the intense continuous fighting through the city, to the encirclement, the beating back of the relieving force and the capitulation of the Sixth Army in February 1943. Alexey Isaev's latest book is an important contribution to the literature on this decisive battle. It offers a thought-provoking revised view of events for readers who are already familiar with the story, and it is a fascinating introduction for those who are coming to it for the first time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943.
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Russia (Federation) -- Volgograd
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harrison, Richard W., 1952- editor; translator.
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| ISBN |
9781526742667 |
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1526742667 |
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9781526742681 |
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1526742683 |
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