Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive
to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich
Paulus’s 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 fought for the city on the Volga. By mid-November, the
Germans were on the brink of victory as the Soviet defenders clung
on to a final few slivers of land along the west bank of the river.
Then, on 19 November, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus,
targeting the weaker Romanian armies protecting the 6th Army’s
flanks. The ill-equipped Romanians were overrun and the 6th Army
was cut off and surrounded. Hitler was determined to hold the city
– the symbolic namesake of the Soviet leader – and forbade the
6th Army from attempting a breakout, insisting they be supplied by
air instead; in February 1943, without food or ammunition, some
91,000 starving, lice-ridden Germans surrendered. The losses on
both sides were eye-watering – the Soviets alone suffered
something approaching half a million dead and more than 650,000
sick or wounded – and in his unique style author Jonathan Trigg
reveals the human agony behind such statistics through the words of
the Germans who were there. Was it all over after the surrender? Of
course not. Death marches did for many: Landser Josef Farber
remembered: ‘We set out with 1,200 men … about 120 were alive
when we reached the camp.’ This was war at its rawest – this
was Stalingrad.
General
| Imprint: |
Amberley Publishing
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
July 2024 |
| Authors: |
Jonathan Trigg
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
320 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-398-11963-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-398-11963-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781398119635 |
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