Disaster at Stalingrad
Tsouras, Peter2019
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It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take the city, crushing this crucial centre of communication and manufacturing, and to secure the valuable oil fields in the Caucasus. What happens next is well known to any student of modern history: a brutal war of attrition, characterised by fierce hand-to-hand combat, that lasted for nearly two years, and the eventual victory by a resolute Soviet Red Army. A ravaged German Army was pushed into full retreat. This was the first crucial defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe and a marked a critical turning point in the Second World War. But the outcome could have been very different, as Peter Tsouras demonstrates in this thought-provoking, alternate history of the fateful battle.
Main title:
Disaster at Stalingrad / Peter G. Tsouras.
Author:
Tsouras, Peter, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Frontline Books, 2019.
Collation:
256 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526760739 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5421747
LC class:
D764.3.S7
Language:
English
BRN:
2521870