In "Endgame at Stalingrad," the final volume of his acclaimed
"Stalingrad Trilogy," David Glantz completes his definitive account
of one of World War II's most infamous confrontations, the campaign
that marked Germany's failure on the Eastern Front and proved to be
a turning point in the war. In documenting the last days of the
Stalingrad campaign, in particular the Red Army's counteroffensive
known at Operation Uranus, Glantz takes on a plethora of myths and
controversial questions surrounding these events, in particular,
questions about why Operation Uranus succeeded and the German
relief attempts failed, whether the Sixth Army could have escaped
encirclement or been rescued, and who, finally was most responsible
for its ultimate defeat.
In addition to a wide variety of traditional sources, this
volume makes use of two major categories of documentary materials
hitherto unavailable to researchers. The first consists of
extensive records from the combat journal of the German Sixth Army,
which had been largely missing since the war's end and were only
recently rediscovered and published. The second is a vast amount of
newly released Soviet and Russian archival material including
excerpts from the Red Army General Staff's daily operational
summaries; a wide variety of "Stavka" (High Command), People's
Commissariat of Defense (NKO), and Red Army General Staff orders
and directives; and the daily records of the Soviet 62nd Army and
its subordinate divisions and brigades for most of the time
fighting was underway in Stalingrad proper.
Because of the persistent controversy and mythology
characterizing this period, many of these documents are included
verbatim in English translation in this companion volume, providing
concrete evidence in support of the conclusions put forward in
"Volume Three." As such, the "Companion" contributes substantially
to this final volume's unprecedented detail and fresh perspectives,
interpretations, and evaluations of the later stages of the
Stalingrad campaign.
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