The Road to Stalingrad by Time-Life Books

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Describes the conflict of worldwide struggle II during which the Russians attacked and defected the German military conserving Stalingrad.

The conflict of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) used to be a tremendous conflict of global battle II during which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for keep an eye on of town of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) within the south-western Soviet Union. Marked by means of consistent shut quarters wrestle and direct attacks on civilians by way of air raids, it's the unmarried greatest and bloodiest conflict within the heritage of struggle. The heavy losses inflicted at the Wehrmacht make it arguably the main strategically decisive conflict of the total struggle. It used to be a turning aspect within the ecu theatre of worldwide warfare II–the German forces by no means regained the initiative within the East and withdrew an enormous army strength from the West to exchange their losses.

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The Road to Stalingrad

Time_life 3rd Reich sequence 18 of 21

Describes the conflict of global conflict II within which the Russians attacked and defected the German military keeping Stalingrad.

The conflict of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) used to be an enormous conflict of global warfare II during which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for regulate of town of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) within the south-western Soviet Union. Marked by way of consistent shut quarters wrestle and direct attacks on civilians by means of air raids, it's the unmarried greatest and bloodiest conflict within the heritage of struggle. The heavy losses inflicted at the Wehrmacht make it arguably the main strategically decisive conflict of the total conflict. It was once a turning aspect within the eu theatre of worldwide battle II–the German forces by no means regained the initiative within the East and withdrew an unlimited army strength from the West to switch their losses.

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Stalin's namesake Hitler's Maximilian von Weichs's meanwhile, would no longer be relegated guard the to the left was now entrusted with the It Army secondary role flank of the thrust outright capture of city. new directive flew in the face of conventional military doctrine. army groups on the southern front would have to diverge at right angles, opening a large and vulnerable gap between them and necessitating separate lines of supply. As the recently departed Bock had foreseen, the battle was being 'chopped in two.

They barely missed the headquarters staff of the Soviet Fortieth Army, who had pulled out minutes before. Although rain and stiffening Russian resistance slowed this northern clists 28 in the On June 28, 1942, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, commander of Army Group South, launched the stage of operation Blau, sending the two panzer corps of Hoth's Fourth Panzer Army east toward Voronezh. Two days first Paulus's Sixth Army moved out from positions east of later, Kharkov. Contrary to German expectations, the Soiiets retreated ever^'where but in the approaches to Voronezh.

The northernmost wing, commanded by General Maximilian von Weichs, attacked from its positions northeast of Kursk toward Voronezh, some 100 miles to the east. Weichs had nearly twenty divisions, with his own Second Army on the left, the Hungarian Second Army on the right, and the Fourth Panzer Army recently transferred from Army Group Center in the middle. The first day of Hitler's summer offensive was so smashingly successful The — that it — recalled the initial blitzkrieg of Russia the year before.

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