Endgame at Stalingrad: Book One: November 1942, The Stalingrad

Endgame at Stalingrad: Book One: November 1942, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3 (Modern War Studies)

The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmachtâ€™s flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army. And now the offensive at Stalingrad, the epic clash that marked Germanyâ€™s failure on the Eastern Front, was entering its grim final phase. In Book One of the third volume of his acclaimed Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz offers the definitive accountâ€•the â€œground truthâ€ to counter a half-centuryâ€™s worth of myth and misinformationâ€”of the beginning of the end of one of the most infamous battles of the Second World War, and one of the most costly in lives and treasure in the annals of history.

When Volume Two left off, Germanyâ€™s vaunted Sixth Army, already deflected from its original goalâ€”the Caucasus oil fieldsâ€•had been drawn into a desperate war of attrition within the ravaged city of Stalingrad. In Volume Three, Book One, we see the ultimate consequences of the Germansâ€™ overreach and the gathering force of the Red Armyâ€™s massive manpower and increasingly sophisticated command. After failing repeatedly to find and exploit the weaknesses in Axis defenses, Stalin and the Stavka (High Command) finally seized their chance in mid-November of 1942 by launching a bold and devastating counteroffensive, Operation Uranus.

Glantz draws a detailed and vivid account of how, in Operation Uranus, the Red Armyâ€™s three fronts defeated and largely destroyed two Romanian armies and encircled the German Sixth Army and half of the German Fourth Panzer Army in the Stalingrad pocketâ€”turning the Germansâ€™ world on its head. Like its predecessor volumes, this one makes extensive use of sources previously out of reach or presumed lost, such as reports from the Sixth Armyâ€™s combat journal and newly released Soviet and Russian records. These materials (many cited at length or printed in their entirety in a companion volume) lend themselves to a strikingly new interpretation of the campaignâ€™s planning and execution on both sidesâ€”a version of events that once and for all gets at the ground truth of this historic confrontation.
Country USA
Brand University Press of Kansas
Manufacturer University Press of Kansas
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 65783
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780700619542
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University Press of Kansas
Manufacturer	University Press of Kansas
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	65783
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780700619542
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Endgame at Stalingrad: Book One: November 1942, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3 (Modern War Studies)

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