Author : Anton Joly
Publisher : StalData Publications
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : History
ISBN :
"Synthesizing a wide range of documents and information sources, this atlas features a standardized set of instruments: timeline, orders of battle, unit strength returns, tactical or strategic situation maps, contextual photos, quotes from key actors. It can be used as a reference manual for searchers, as well as a guide for those who want to know the basics: Who, When, Where."--Back cover, volumes 1-3
Author : Anton Joly
Publisher : StalData Publications
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : History
ISBN :
The New 2017 Revised Edition has been awarded the APMC Cultural Price at the Salon de l'Histoire in Paris. “We realized that the decisive battle had come and if we can survive it the Germans were unlikely to muster such powerful forces again." Thus wrote Lieutenant-General Vasily Chuikov, 62nd Army's Commander, about 14 October 1942. As hundreds of tons of steel where hurled against the Soviet defenders, the Germans unleashed a critical onslaught in what they perceived as their D-day for Stalingrad. This same day Hitler issued the winter standby directive to his troops on the eastern front. It read: "This year's summer and fall campaign, excepting the operations currently under way and several local offensives still contemplated, has been concluded." As for the "operations currently under way" 6th Army was ordered not only to continue, but also to strengthen its offensive. Although badly depleted for the most part, the divisions mustered by both sides in the industrial district of the city still embodied a considerable fighting potential. With regard to density, seldom in the history of wars such a small territory was contested by such a quantity of manpower, artillery and aircraft. After the equivalent of a full month of combats within the city, the culminating point was about to be reached. Towards mid- October, after having completed a restructuration of his attacking forces, Paulus moved the most able formations into line, expecting the entire front to collapse in the northern sector of Stalingrad, then to finish off 62nd Army's truncated remnants with an enveloping maneuver along the Volga, as was his intent from the beginning. The second volume of the "Stalingrad Battle Atlas" series covers 35 days of fighting within the city. It presents essential strategic and tactical information, including recently released archival data, and features specific maps for each day of active operations during this period. Synthesizing an extremely wide range of documents and information sources, this chronological atlas seeks to reach the maximal degree of precision in describing historical reality, rendering it through a standardized set of instruments: timeline, orders of battle, unit strength returns, tactical and strategic situation maps, contextual photos, quotes from key actors. It can be used as a reference manual for searchers, as well as a guide for those who want to know the basics: Who, When, Where. In 2015 the Russian Federal Archive Agency, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Historical Society and the German Historical Institute in Moscow publicly released large archival funds of Soviet and German records. This new edition of the Stalingrad Battle Atlas series thus benefits from the most substantial set of available wartime documents. Main features: o Latest available documents from archives o Tactical & Strategic Maps o Order of Battle & Strength Returns 432 pages A new perspective of the legendary battle on the Volga
Author : Warlord Games
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,75 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 147283903X
One of the most infamous and decisive battles of the Second World War, Stalingrad was a turning point of the Eastern Front, showing that the German juggernaut was not invincible. This Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to refight the fierce Battle of Stalingrad, from the actions of the surrounding area and within the city itself, to the encirclement, concerted relief efforts, and the final attempted breakout. New, linked scenarios, rules, troop types, and Theatre Selectors provide plenty of options for both novice and veteran players alike.
Author : Chris McNab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 147282458X
By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90 per cent of Stalingrad. Yet the Soviets stubbornly held on to the remaining parts of the city, and German casualties started to reach catastrophic levels. In an attempt to break the deadlock, Hitler decided to send additional German pioneer battalions to act as an urban warfare spearhead. These combat engineers were skilled in all aspects of city fighting, especially in the use of demolitions and small arms to overcome defended positions and in the destruction of armoured vehicles. Facing them were hardened Soviet troops who had perfected the use of urban camouflage, concealed and interlocking firing positions, close quarters battle, and sniper support. This fully illustrated book explores the tactics and effectiveness of these opposing troops during this period, focusing particularly on the brutal close-quarters fight over the Krasnaya Barrikady (Red Barricades) ordnance factory.
Author : Anton Joly
Publisher : StalData Publications
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN :
The New 2017 Revised Edition has been awarded the APMC Cultural Price at the Salon de l'Histoire in Paris. "Flames reached hundreds meters high, buildings collapsed and steel melted down: it seemed everything would be destroyed in this inferno, yet men kept on fighting." This depiction by Major-General Aleksandr Rodimtsev, 13th Guards Division Commander, refers to the first German assault in the city on 14 September 1942. The fighting in Stalingrad indeed presented exceptional features. There eventually converged the essentials of the war in the East, not only a clash of armies and ruthless ideologies but also one of civilizations, where the invaders were not seeking to conquer another vassal state but to erase an entire culture from the face of the world. Seventy years after, the release of new material from the Soviet archives finally allows to contemplate a detailed, exact study of the conflict, including new outstanding opportunites for mapping each single day of this terrible fighting. This first volume of the Stalingrad Battle Atlas series covers 30 days of combat within the city. Built upon the latest available archival data, it addresses strategic and tactical levels and features entirely new maps for each day of active operations during this period. Synthesizing a wide range of documents and sources, this chronological atlas seeks to reach the maximal degree of precision in describing historical reality, rendering it through a standardized set of instruments: timeline, order of battle, unit strength returns, situation maps, contextual photos, quotes from key actors. It can be used as a reference manual for searchers as well as a guide for those who want to know the basics: Who, When, Where. In 2015 the Russian Federal Archive Agency, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Historical Society and the German Historical Institute in Moscow publically released “Bestand-500”, a large archival fund of seized German records from the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the Oberkommando des Heeres and Heeresgruppe B. This new edition of the Stalingrad Battle Atlas book series thus benefits from the latest available set of wartime documents. Main features: o Latest available documents from archives o Tactical & Strategic Maps o Order of Battle & Strength Returns 548 pages A new perspective of the legendary battle on the Volga
Author : Anton Joly
Publisher : StalData Publications
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category : History
ISBN :
The New 2017 Revised Edition has been awarded the APMC Cultural Price at the Salon de l'Histoire in Paris. "I can see the Stalingrad sky glowing in the distance." General Erhard Raus, 6th Panzer Division Commander, deploying his troops on the Myshkova River 50 km away from the "cauldron." The Red Army defeated the Wehrmacht against all odds in one of the most dramatic battles in History. How such a miracle has been made possible ? What exactly happened each single day of this titanic struggle ? The fourth volume of the "Stalingrad Battle Atlas" series covers Operation Winter Storm, the German attempt to link up with 6th Army encircled in the Stalingrad pocket. It presents strategic and tactical information, featuring especially designed maps for each day of active operations during this period, along with wartime documents translated from German and Russian. Synthesizing an extremely wide range of documents and information sources, this chronological atlas seeks to reach the maximal degree of precision in describing historical reality, rendering it through a standardized set of instruments: timeline, orders of battle, unit strength returns, tactical or strategic situation maps, contextual photos, quotes from key actors. It can be used as a reference manual for searchers, as well as a guide for those who want to know the basics: Who, When, Where. In 2015 the Russian Federal Archive Agency, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Historical Society and the German Historical Institute in Moscow publicly released large archival funds of Soviet and German records. This new edition of the Stalingrad Battle Atlas series thus benefits from the most substantial set of available wartime documents. Main Features: o Latest Available Documents from Archives o Tactical & Strategic Maps o Order of Battle & Strength Returns 402 pages A New Perspective of the Legendary Battle on the Volga
Author : Jason D. Mark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0811766195
Stalingrad was one of the largest, bloodiest, and most famous battles in history as well as one of the major turning points of World War II. For four winter months during the battle, German and Soviet forces fought over a single factory inside the city of Stalingrad. Lavishly illustrated with photos and maps, Island of Fire presents a day-by-day—at times hour-by-hour—chronicle of that pitiless struggle as seen by both sides. The book is unparalleled and exhaustive in its research, meticulous in its reconstruction of the action, and vivid in its retelling of the street-by-street, hand-to-hand fighting near the gun factory.
Author : Robert Kirchubel
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472807748
The Eastern Front of World War II was a nightmarish episode of human history, on a scale the like of which the world had never seen, and most likely never will see again. This expansive collection of maps offers a visual guide to the theater that decided the fate of the war, spanning the thousands of miles from Berlin to the outskirts of Moscow, Stalingrad, East Prussia and all the way back. The accuracy and detail of the military cartography found in this volume illuminates the enormity of the campaign, revealing the staggering dimensions of distance covered and human losses suffered by both sides.
Author : Iain MacGregor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1982163585
Rolling the Dice-The Battle for Moscow 1941 -- History Repeating Itself-March 15-May 28, 1942 -- The Move South -- "Not One Step Back!" -- A City of Revolution-The Birth of Stalingrad -- Rain of Fire -- The King of Stalingrad! -- Send for the Guards -- Success Measured in Meters and Bodies -- Change at the Top -- The Storm Group and the Art of Active Defense -- The Legend Begins: The Capture of the "Lighthouse" -- Trouble in the North -- The Last Assault of Sixth Army: Operation "Hubertus" -- "Twentieth Century Cannae": Operation Uranus -- The Relentless Fight -- Hope Extinguished: Christmas in the Kessel -- The Last Commander of the "Lucky Division" -- The End -- Epilogue The Legend of the "Lighthouse".
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1101153563
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has itnerviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.
