Stalingrad

Das Reich, 36f;

Wiking, 79

Stahlberg, Lieutenant Alexander, 14–15, 273f, 341, 368

Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich, 4ff, 8f, 21, 27, 29, 45, 66, 72;

purge of Red Army, 23;

and Stavka, 24;

and son Yakov, 26;

and Moscow, 38–9, 42;

and generals, 88–9, 99, 221–2, 233, 250n, 301, 321–2, 405;

and defence of Stalingrad, 109, 117–18, 130, 137–8, 173, 191. 197;

and Uranus, 130–31, 220–22, 233–4, 240;

and Saturn, 292–3, 298, 301;

and crushing of Kessel, 320f, 385;

after surrender, 397, 404;

and Tehran conference, 418–19

Stalin, Major Vasily, 133

Stalingrad tractor factory, 10, 98, 109, 161, 189, 191f, 195f, 206, 392

Stamenov, Ivan, 9

Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus Count von, 67–8, 275n

Stavka (Soviet Supreme General Staff), 24f, 34f, 42, 63, 74, 79, 84, 220–21, 292, 320, 328, 389

Stempel, General, 377, 381

Stock, Lieutenant Gerhard, 229, 239

Strachwitz, Lieutenant-Colonel Hyazinth Count von, 66f, 107, 109, 124

Strecker, General Karl, 58, 76, 87, 113, 146f, 149, 195, 229, 244, 246, 251, 254, 269,290, 308,313, 318–19, 339, 357,366, 392–3, 423, 426, 428, 430

Stulpnagel, General Otto von, 369

Surkov, Alexey, 125, 289

Suzdal camp, 415, 422

Taganrog, 2, 294, 343, 360

Tanashchinshin, Colonel, 250

Tatsinskaya airfield, 295, 300,313, 334

Tehran conference, 418–19

Telegin, General Konstantin F., 388, 389n

Thomas, General, 424

Thunert, Colonel, 261

Timoshenko, Marshal Semyon, 42, 51f, 59, 61, 63, 65–6, 67, 74f, 99

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