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Stalingrad: Death of the German Sixth Army on the Volga, 1942-1943: Vol 1: The Bloody Fall, Vol 2: The Brutal Winter (Paperback)
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Stalingrad: Death of the German Sixth Army on the Volga, 1942-1943: Vol 1: The Bloody Fall, Vol 2: The Brutal Winter (Paperback)
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Stalingrad: The Death of the German Sixth Army on the Volga,
1942-1943, is the first published work to detail the situation of
every German corps and division for every day of the six-month
Stalingrad campaign. Derived from the Sixth Army daily operation
reports and the German Army High Command (OKH) situation maps (Lage
Ost), this two-volume set presents the situation on the flanks of
the army, as well as the combat in the city itself, a level of
detail never before attempted. Stalingrad was the perfect storm
that would lead to the death of an army - the German Sixth Army.
Led by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, but micromanaged by Adolf
Hitler, who insisted that his forces fight to the last man and
bullet, the Sixth Army became fixated on an objective that
continued to be just past their grasp. Believing that Stalingrad
would be theirs "if only" one more attack against the urban rubble
was mounted, the Sixth Army did not see that it was in a situation
where if something did go wrong, it would not "see" impending doom
until it was too late. That something was the massive Soviet attack
that broke through both flanks of the Sixth Army in such a violent
manner and to such a great operational depth that any hope of
relieving the surrounded pocket from the outside in such horrible
winter conditions was probably illusionary. Thus, defeat was in
order for the Sixth Army, but it would not end there. Adolf Hitler
had insisted that this would be a fight between the supermen of
Aryan Germany against the sub-humans of Slavic Russia. In this
fight, according to Nazi ideology, the sub-humans had no right to
live. Given the polar ideological differences of Fascism and
Communism, combined with this racial antagonism, when the Red Army
did gain the upper hand and isolate the German forces around
Stalingrad in November 1942, the situation guaranteed that the
Sixth Army would not only be defeated, but that it and most of its
soldiers were headed for annihilation.
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