Pen and Sword, 2010. — 304 p. Michael K. Jones's new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous battle of the WW2. Combining eyewitness testimony of Red Army fighters with fresh archive material, the book gives a dramatic insight into the thinking of the Russian command and the mood of the ordinary soldiers. He focuses on the story of the Russian...
A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Military Art and Science Military History. — Colorado Springs: B.S., Unites States Air Force Academy, 1989. — 100 p. The Battle of Stalingrad was a disaster. The German Sixth Army consisted of over 300,000 men when it...
Pen and Sword Military, 2009. — 160 p. — (Images of War). The Soviet victory over the Germans at Stalingrad was decisive for the war on the Eastern Front and for the Second World War as a whole, and the story of the long, bitter battle on the banks of the Volga has fascinated historians ever since. While it has been the subject of countless histories, memoirs and eyewitness...
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. — 478 p. Sunday Times war-correspondent Werth spent four years in the Soviet Union during WW2. He traveled widely, interviewed Russian officers and enlisted men, civilians and German prisoners. His diary entries and description of why and how the Russians managed to turn back the Nazi invasion make this a fascinating book to read.
Coursework. — Olimpia,The Evergreen State College, 2012. — 22 p. In the autumn months of 1942, General Chuikov and the Soviet 62nd army waged a battle of attrition in the city of Stalingrad. By employing devastating urban warfare tactics and feverishly defending the city of Stalingrad block by block, Red Army soldiers successfully drew the 6th army into the battlefield of...
2-nd edition. Two Hour Wargames, 2011. — 52 p. The sky is glowing over Stalingrad. Greyish-white smoke billows from the ground, flames shoot high into the sky in between. The long probing fingers of the searchlights tear at the half-darkness of the breaking day…we can feel Stalingrad’s hot breath. This must be how Rome looked after Nero put it to the torch. The only difference...
Student Report. Air Command and Staff College Air University, 1987. — 73 p. This project examines the pivotal role played by Luftwaffe tactical operations in support of the German Sixth Army during its encirclement at Stalingrad, 19 November 1942-02 February 1943. These operations are separate and distinct from the aerial resupply missions flown by VIII Fliegerkorps and...
Perseus Books Group, 2015. — 437 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61039-497-0. Jochen Hellbeck, professor of history at Rutgers University, is preparing a book on the German occupation of the Soviet Union during World War II. He directs a team of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian scholars that uncover and examine wartime records on the Soviet experience of Nazi occupation. Hellbeck regularly...
New York: B&N, 2003. William Craig, author and historian, has painstakingly recreated the details of this great battle: from the hot summer of August 1942, when the German armies smashed their way across southern Russia toward the Volga River, through the struggle for Stalingrad-a city Hitler had never meant to capture and Stalin never meant to defend-on to the destruction of...
Longman, 2002. — 247 p. — ISBN: 0-582-77185-4. If you're looking for a high level, concise overview of the reasons and ramifications for the battle and of the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, then give this book serious consideration. The author describes the reasons why Hitler went to war which are the same basic reasons for Stalingrad, a brief summary of the battle and finally...
Forge Books, 1999. — 212 p. — ISBN: 0-312-86853-7. The epic battle of Stalingrad will be remembered as one of history’s most savage conflicts. Here world-renowned military historian Edwin P. Hoyt tells the full story of this bloody battle, using documents from Moscow and American archives as well as first-person testimonials from Stalingrad’s heroic survivors. With the dramatic...
Viking Adult, 1998 - 560 p. ISBN10: 0670870951 ISBN13: 9780670870950 (eng) In June 1941, German forces swept across Soviet territory in an offensive that finally brought them within twenty-five miles of Moscow. But in August 1942, the overconfident Hitler chose the wrong target, Stalin's namesake city on the Volga. The battle of Stalingrad is extraordinary in every way: the...