Stalingrad : the city that defeated the Third Reich / Jochen Hellbeck, Translated by Christopher Tauchen and Dominic Bonfiglio.
"Just days after the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad, legendary Red Army sniper Vasily Zaytsev described the horrors he witnessed during the five-month long conflict: 'One sees the young girls, the children who hang from trees in the park ... I have unsteady nerves and I'm constantl...
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| Other title: | Stalingrad-Protokolle. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- A Pivotal Struggle
- Interpretations of the Battle
- Revolutionary Army
- Stalin's City
- Prewar Era
- Army and Party in War
- Commanders and Commissars
- Politics, Up Close
- The Hero Strategy
- Good and Bad Soldiers
- Forms of Combat
- People in War
- Historians of the Avant-Garde
- The Commission in Stalingrad
- The Transcripts
- Sources and Editorial Principles
- 2. A Chorus of Soldiers
- The Fate of the City and Its Residents
- Agrafena Pozdnyakova
- Gurtyev's Rifle Division in Battle
- Vasily Grossman's "In the Line of the Main Drive"
- The Landing at Latoshinka
- The Capture of Field Marshal Paulus
- 3. Nine Accounts of the War
- General Vasily Chuikov
- Guards Division General Alexander Rodimzev
- Nurse Vera Gurova
- A Lieutenant from Odessa : Alexander Averbuch
- Regiment Commander Alexander Gerasimov
- The History Instructor : Captain Nikolai Aksyonov
- Sniper Vasily Zaytsev
- A Simple Soldier : Alexander Parchomenko
- Captain Pyotr Sayonchkovsky
- 4. The Germans Speak
- German Prisoners in February 1943
- A German Diary from the Kessel
- 5. War and Peace
- Maps.