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Stalingrad : city on fire /

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 stri...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Isaev, A. V. (Alekseĭ Valerʹevich) (Autor)
Otros Autores: Harrison, Richard W., 1952- (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK ; Havertown, PA, USA : Pen & Sword Military, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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'
  • 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
  • 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
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Back Cover