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Tresckow, Colonel Henning von, 14–15, 273, 275n
Tukhachevsky, Marshal M., 23
Tula, 2, 36, 90
Ukrainians in German uniform, 179, 185–6, 263
Ulbricht, Walter, 307, 322, 407, 410, 426
Uman, 29, 31
Univermag, 140, 377, 383 Ural mountains, 9, 224
United States Embassy, Moscow, 137
Vasilevsky, Marshal Aleksandr, 84–5, 99, 117–18, 131, 220–23, 233f, 250n, 293, 298
Vatutin, General Nikolay, 182, 225
Vertyachy, 102, 243, 247, 257f
Vinnitsa, Werwolf HQ, 79–80, 123, 129, 220
Vinogradov, General I. V., 281, 321, 322–3, 324–5,330
Vishnevsky, Colonel Timofey, 155
Vitebsk, 26, 266
Vlasov, General Andrey, 44
Voikovo camp, 422f
Volchansk, 64, 65, 70
Volga, river, 2, 11f, 36, 70, 75, 81, 97f, 100–101, 106f, 110–11, 126, 127f, 152, 159–60;
crossing of 13th Guards Div, 133–5;
central landing stage, 141;
civilian evacuation across, 174–5;
crossing and NKVD control, 190–91;
Hitler’s boasts, 213;
Volga becomes unnavigable, 214, 217;
frozen solid, 302–3
Volga flotilla, 134, 160, 162, 212, 214, 394
Volsky, General Vasily Timofeyevich, 250, 255, 437
Vorkhuta camps, 428 Voronezh, 2, 70, 74–5, 78, 129, 293
Voronov, Marshal Nikolay, 106, 233, 320ff, 323f, 349, 353, 360, 382, 388–91,396
Voroponovo, 178, 315, 346, 350–51
Voroshilov, Marshal Kliment, 23, 234, 418
Warlimont, General Walther, 123–4
Weichs, General Baron Maximilien von, 129, 247, 274, 425
Weinert, Erich, 307f 324, 350, 356, 362, 371, 407, 410, 426
Weizsacker, Baron Ernst von, 3
Werth, Alexander, 393, 397
White Rose group, 403
Wietersheim, General Gustav von, 102, 112f
Witzleben, Field Marshal Erwin von, 56, 426
women in Red Army, 66, 87, 91, 96, 106–8, 109f, 140–41, 154, 157–8, 160, 207, 224
Yakimovich, Colonel, 388, 396
Yelabuga camp, 415, 421
Yeremenko, General Andrei Ivanovich, 34, 99–100, 108, 112, 115, 125, 127, 130f, 138, 147, 189, 196, 230, 255, 298f, 321–2
Zaitsev, Vasily, 154, 203–4
Zavarykino (Don Front HQ), 320f, 387, 397f
Zeitzler, General Kurt 266, 270, 297,313, 320, 335, 357, 365, 391–2, 401
Zholudev, General V., 193f, 196
Zhukov, Marshal Georgy, 25, 35, 39, 42, 89, 117–18;
at Khalkin-Gol, 24;
and Order No. 227, 85
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. A regular officer in the 11th Hussras, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, while his works of non-fiction include The Spanish Civil War; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award; and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. With his wife, the writer Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris After the Liberation: 1944-1949. Antony Beevor is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. Most of his titles are published by Penguin.
Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Proze for Non-fiction, the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999. It became a number-one bestseller both in hardback and paperback, the UK edition alone selling half a million copies, and has been published around the world in eighteen translations.
* Hitler had his revenge in the end. Schulenburg, chosen in 1944 by the July plotters as their Foreign Minister after the planned assassination at Rastenburg, was hanged by the Nazis on 10 November of that year.
* ‘I do not understand,’ a Red Army intelligence officer has written at the bottom of the translation. ‘Where does this come from?’
* There were other echoes of the Spanish Civil War. Rubén Ruiz Ibarruri, the son of La Pasionaria, was killed commanding a machine-gun company of 35th Guards Rifle Division south of Kotluban. Four subsequent Marshals of the Soviet Union closely linked to the battle of Stalingrad – Voronov, Malinovsky, Rokossovsky and Rodimtsev – had been Soviet advisers in Spain, as had General Shumilov, the commander of 64th Army. Voronov had directed the Republican artillery during the siege of Madrid against Franco’s Army of Africa.
* Few members of the Sixth Army seem to have heard about the Sarmatae of the lower Volga – an interbreed of Scythians and Amazons, according