Armageddon in Stalingrad : September-November 1942
Focuses on the inferno of combat that decimated the city of Stalingrad during the German offensive. The authors reconstruct the fighting hour by hour, street by street, and even building by building to reveal how Soviet defenders established killing zones throughout the city and repeatedly ambushed German spearheads
Print Book, English, ©2009
University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., ©2009
Modern war studies, v. 2
History
xxii, 896 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780700616640, 0700616640
319064655
1. The Germans at the gates
Who's besieging whom?
The strategic conundrum
Operation Blau, 1942
To Stalingrad
German leadership
Soviet commanders
The soldiers
2. The battle in Stalingrad's suburbs, 3-12 September 1942
Area of operations
Opposing forces
Zhukov's Kotluban' offensive, 3-12 September
Sixth and fourth Panzer armies' assault on Stalingrad's suburbs, 3-9 September
Changes of command
The fall of Stalingrad's suburbs, 10-12 September
Conclusions
3. The battle for central and southern Stalingrad, 13-26 September 1942
Opposing forces
The initial German assault, 13-18 September
The tactics of city fighting
Stalingrad as a symbol
The second Kotluban' offensive, 18 September-2 October
The struggle for Mamaev Kurgan and center city, 19-26 September
Conclusions
4. The initial assault on the workers' villages and reduction of the Orlovka salient, 27 September-3 October 1942
Paulus's offensive plan
Chuikov's counterattack plan
The initial German assault on the workers' (factory) villages, 27-28 September
Soviet command decisions
The struggle for Mamaev Kurgan and the workers' villages, 29-30 September
Chuikov receives reinforcements, 29 September-1 October
The reduction of the Orlovka salient, 29 September-3 October
Conclusions. 5. The final assault on the workers' villages and battles on sixth army's flanks, 3-13 October 1942
The fighting for the workers' villages, 3-7 October
The struggle on the flanks, 29 September-11 October
The lull before the storms, 8-13 October
Conclusions
6. The struggle for the tractor factory and Spartanovka, 14-22 October 1942
Competing plans
The initial assaults on the tractor and Barrikady factories, 14-18 October
The operational lull, 19-22 October
Reorganization of 62nd army's defenses
Don Front's counterstroke (Fourth Kotluban'), 20-26 October
Conclusions
7. The assaults on the Krasnyi Oktiabr' and Barrikady factories, 23-31 October 1942
Planning
The battle for the Barrikady and Krasnyi Oktiabr' factories, 23-31 October
64th army's counterstroke, 25 October-2 November
Conclusions
8. The struggle on the flanks, 11 September-18 November 1942
The Caucasus in September : Hitler takes command
Opposing forces
The Mozdok-Malgobek operation, 2-28 September
The Caucasus in October and November
Northern group's counterstroke
The Northern flank
Conclusions
9. The assaults on the Barrikady and Krasnyi Oktiabr' factories, 1-18 November 1942
Planning for the Germans' "final act," 1-8 November
The calm before the storm : the fighting during the operational "lull," 1-10 November
Soviet plans and Axis perceptions
The final act : sixth army's assault on the Barrikady factory sector, 11-15 November
To the edge of the abyss : 16-18 November
Conclusions
Epilogue
10. Conclusions
The battle in Stalingrad
The influence of combat on the distant flanks
The Red army
Costs
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