The Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes

Name: The Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes
Author: Jonathan Trigg
ISBN: 9781398110717

by Jonathan Trigg

ISBN: 9781398110717

Published: 2022-07-15

HISTORY

Jonathan Trigg reveals the human agony behind such statistics through the words of the Germans who were there: 'You'll regret this insulting, provocative and thoroughly predatory attack on the Soviet Union! You'll pay dearly for it!' (Dekanazov, Soviet Ambassador in Berlin). The Germans did. But the butcher's bill was huge for both sides. Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle degenerated into house-to-house fighting, as both sides poured reinforcements in. By mid-November, the Germans had pushed the Soviet defenders back at great cost into narrow zones along the west bank of the Volga. On November19, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, targeting the weaker Romanian and Hungarian armies protecting the 6th Army's flanks. The flanks were overrun and the 6th...

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