‘Antony Beevor has produced a compelling and extraordinary story, richly detailed and engrossingly written. Western scholars owe him a very great debt. We now have the real history of Stalingrad without myth or embellishment’.
‘One is convinced by his scholarship, and increasingly moved by the drama… he succeeds brilliantly’.
‘This brilliant tapestry’.
List of Illustrations
1. Autumn 1941. Soviet prisoners of war being herded to the rear
2. July 1942. German infantry marching towards Stalingrad
3. A village destroyed in the advance
4. German tanks on the Don steppe
5. August 1942. German artillery outside Stalingrad
6. Dr Beck, chaplain of the 297th Infantry Division
7. Paulus, Hitler, Keitel, Haider and Brauchitsch at the Wolf
8. September 1942. Tanks of the 24th Panzer Division advancing
9. September 1942. Red Army tank troops listening to a speech from Khrushchev
10. The view which greeted Russian reinforcements about to cross the Volga
11. German officer and soldiers attacking factory buildings
12. Russian infantry defending
13. October 1942. Round-up of Stalingrad civilians
14. 62nd Army HQ. Krylov, Chuikov, Gurov and Rodimtsev
15. Red Army assault squad in the ‘Stalingrad Academy of street-fighting’
16. One of Chuikov’s divisional commanders with a young woman signaller
17. October 1942. German infantry occupying a destroyed workshop
18. ‘Noble Sniper’ Zaitsev from the Siberian 284th Rifle Division
19 and 20. November 1942. Operation Uranus: the encirclement of the Sixth Army
21. Junkers 52 transport taking off
22. December 1942. German artillery from Hoth’s Fourth Panzer Army
23. Trapped Sixth Army soldiers retrieve parachute canisters
24. January 1943. General Rokossovsky
25. January 1943. German infantry retreating through a blizzard
26. January 1943. General Edler von Daniels marches into captivity
27. January 1943. Goering on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s assumption of power
28. January 1943. Field Marshal Paulus and General Schmidt after surrendering
29. A German soldier booted and prodded out of a bunker
30. Remnants of the Sixth Army marched off to captivity
31. German and Romanian prisoners
I am particularly grateful to the Arkhiv Muzeya Panorami Stalin-gradskoy Bitvi (the Archive of the Panoramic Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad) in Volgograd for providing illustrations 10, 14, 18, 19 and 20.
Helmut Abt Verlag,
AKG London: 24, 30
Archive Photos, London: 12, 15
Bundesarchiv, Koblenz: 2, 21
Getty Images, London: 1, 3, 17, 22, 23, 25
Imperial War Museum, London: 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 26, 28, 29, 31
Methuen & Co Ltd,
Private collection: 27
Topham Picturepoint, Edenbridge, Kent: 16
Westdeutsches Verlag,
List of Maps
1 Operation Barbarossa, June–December 1941
2 Operation Blue, Summer 1942
3 The German Assault on Stalingrad, September 1942
4 Operation Uranus, November 1942
5 Operation Winter Storm and Operation Little Saturn, December 1942
6 Operation Ring, January 1943
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