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Stalingrad 1942-43 (1) - The German Advance to the Volga (Paperback)
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Stalingrad 1942-43 (1) - The German Advance to the Volga (Paperback)
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After failing to defeat the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa
in 1941, Adolf Hitler planned a new campaign for the summer of 1942
that was intended to achieve a decisive victory: Operation Blue
(Case Blau). In this new campaign, Hitler directed that one army
group (Heeresgruppe A) would advance to seize the Soviet oilfields
in the Caucasus, while the other (Heeresgruppe B) pushed on to the
Volga River. The expectation was for a rapid victory - instead,
German forces had to fight hard just to reach the outskirts of
Stalingrad, and then found themselves embroiled in a protracted
urban battle amid the ruins of a devastated city on the Volga. The
Soviet Red Army was hit hard by the initial German offensive but
held onto the city and then launched Operation Uranus, a winter
counteroffensive that encircled the German 6. Armee at Stalingrad.
Despite a desperate German relief operation, the Red Army
eventually crushed the German forces and hurled the remnants of the
German southern front back in disorder. This first volume in the
Stalingrad trilogy covers the period from 28 June to 11 September
1942, including operations around Voronezh. The fighting in the Don
Bend, which lasted weeks, comprised some of the largest tank
battles of World War II - involving more armour than the tanks
employed at Prokhorovka in 1943.
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