Stalingrad - Antony Beevor [1]
First published in Penguin Books 1999
This edition published 2007
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Copyright © Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper, 1998
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The moral right of the author has been asserted
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ISBN: 978-0-14-192610-0
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF MAPS
PREFACE
PART ONE
‘THE WORLD WILL HOLD ITS BREATH!’
1 The Double-Edged Sword of Barbarossa
2 ‘Nothing is Impossible for the German Soldier!’
3 ‘Smash in the Door and the Whole Rotten Structure Will Come Crashing Down!’
4 Hitler’s Hubris: The Delayed Battle for Moscow
PART TWO
BARBAROSSA RELAUNCHED
5 General Paulus’s First Battle
6 ‘How Much Land Does a Man Need?’
7 ‘Not One Step Backwards’
8 ‘The Volga is Reached!’
PART THREE
‘THE FATEFUL CITY’
9 ‘Time is Blood’: The September Battles
10 Rattenkrieg
11 Traitors and Allies
12 Fortresses of Rubble and Iron
13 Ρaulus’s Final Assault
14 ‘All For the Front!’
PART FOUR
ZHUKOY’S TRAP
15 Operation Uranus
16 Hitler’s Obsession
17 ‘The Fortress Without a Roof’
18 ‘Der Manstein Kommt!’
19 Christmas in the German Way
PART FIVE
THE SUBJUGATION OF THE SIXTH ARMY
20 The Air-Bridge
21 ‘Surrender Out of the Question’
22 ‘A German Field Marshal Does Not Commit Suicide with a Pair of Nail Scissors!’
23 ‘Stop Dancing! Stalingrad Has Fallen’
24 The City of the Dead
25 The Sword of Stalingra
APPENDIX A:
German and Soviet Orders of Battle, 19 November 1942
APPENDIX B:
The Statistical Debate: Sixth Army Strength in the Kessel
REFERENCES
SOURCE NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
List of Illustrations
SECTION ONE
1. Autumn 1941. Soviet prisoners of war being herded to the rear
2. July 1942. German infantry marching towards Stalingrad
3. A village destroyed in the advance
4. German tanks on the Don steppe
5. August 1942. German artillery outside Stalingrad
6. Dr Beck, chaplain of the 297th Infantry Division
7. Paulus, Hitler, Keitel, Haider and Brauchitsch at the Wolf sschanze
8. September 1942. Tanks of the 24th Panzer Division advancing
9. September 1942. Red Army tank troops listening to a speech from Khrushchev
10. The view which greeted Russian reinforcements about to cross the Volga
11. German officer and soldiers attacking factory buildings
12. Russian infantry defending
13. October 1942. Round-up of Stalingrad civilians
14. 62nd Army HQ. Krylov, Chuikov, Gurov and Rodimtsev
15. Red Army assault squad in the ‘Stalingrad Academy of street-fighting’
SECTION TWO
16. One of Chuikov’s divisional commanders with a young woman signaller
17. October 1942. German infantry occupying a destroyed workshop
18. ‘Noble Sniper’ Zaitsev from the Siberian 284th Rifle Division
19 and 20. November 1942. Operation Uranus: the encirclement of the Sixth Army
21. Junkers 52 transport taking off
22. December 1942. German artillery from Hoth’s Fourth Panzer Army
23. Trapped Sixth Army soldiers retrieve parachute canisters
24. January 1943. General Rokossovsky
25. January 1943. German infantry retreating through a blizzard
26. January 1943. General Edler von Daniels marches into captivity
27. January 1943. Goering on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s assumption of power
28. January 1943. Field Marshal Paulus and General Schmidt after surrendering
29. A German soldier booted and prodded out of a bunker
30. Remnants of the Sixth Army marched off to captivity
31. German and Romanian prisoners
PHOTOGRAPHIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am particularly grateful to the Arkhiv Muzeya Panorami Stalin-gradskoy Bitvi (the Archive of the Panoramic Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad) in Volgograd for providing illustrations 10, 14, 18, 19 and 20.
Helmut Abt Verlag, Bis Stalingrad,