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Armageddon in Stalingrad : September-November 1942<br> The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2 /
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...
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
2009.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.