Enemy at the Gates

artillery: antitank, 49, 137, 188, 194, 224, 240; German, 73, 79, 94, 101, 123, 125, 133, 335; Russian, 36, 39, 46, 104, 112, 151, 171-172, 306, 315; surrendered to Germans, 75. See also mortars

Asia, Russian expansion into, 29

Astrakhan, 3, 67

atrocities: German, 43, 143, 321, 436; Russian, 282, 321, 362

Austria, 151; troops, 224, 226, 334

autopsy, 318-319

Azov, Sea of, 3, 179, 203

Babi Yar, 436

Baburkin, 286, 304, 353

Badanov, Gen., 301, 302

Baden-Baden, 401

Bad Gotesburg, 396

Baku, 78

Balkan States, 13

Banco Nazionale del Lavore, 397

Barmantsak, Lake, 187

Barrikady Gun Factory, 36, 99, 123, 125, 135, 155, 156, 162, 208, 261, 270, 399, 400; battle for, 137, 138- 142, 144, 150, 151, 186, 225-226, 242

Batov, Gen., 368

Batum, 78

Batyuk, Col. Nikolai, 103, 120, 127, 168, 396

Beaulieu, Col., 372

Beer Hall Putsch, 153

Behr, Capt. Winrich, 175, 176, 182, 185, 186, 299, 335-336, 340, 344-345, 356, 382, 396, 405

Beketovka, 67, 80, 149, 151, 171, 187, 241, 378, 390

Below, Col. Gunter von 100-101, 114-115, 329-330, 367, 396, 405

Below, Col. Nikolaus von, 100, 229, 335-336, 382, 396

Berlin, 118, 121, 398, 401, 402; airlift, 394

Bezditko, Lt. Ivan, 168

Big Saturn offensive, 229, 301

Billert, Oberleutnant, 353

Binder, Karl, 112, 142, 184, 189-190, 220-221, 288-289, 313-314, 333-334, 359-360, 387, 388-389, 396-397, 405

“Black Crows,” 11

Black Sea, 78, 147, 301

Blinov, 183, 185

blitzkrieg, 4, 76, 90, 118

Boblingen, 268, 288, 397

Bock, Gen. Fedor von, 8, 18, 19

BODO line, 48, 61, 83, 187

Boguchar, 282

Bolshe Nabotoff, 184, 189

Bolshevik Revolution, 29-30, 58-59, 83, 152

bombing, see air raids; Stuka aircraft

Boris, Oberleutnant, 339

Bormann, Martin, 206, 344

Bracci, Lt. Felice, 15, 262, 275-276, 281, 304-306, 327, 328, 390, 397, 405

Branco (Italian prisoner), 327

Brandt, Pvt. Willi, 133

Breining, Lt. Friedrich, 115, 166, 209, 405

Brezhnev, Leonid, 404

bridges, see Don River; Kalach

British Army, Eighth, 153

British Expeditionary Force, 4

Brunnert, Pvt. Ekkehart, 164-165, 239, 268-269, 288, 322-324, 397, 405

Brunnert, Irene, 288

Bulganin, Nikolai, 436, 437

Bund Deutsche Offiziere, 396

Bundeswehr, 401

Businovka, 192, 196, 247, 252

Byelorussia, 106

cannibalism, xiii, 390-392

Capone, Dr. Cristoforo, 15-16, 257-258, 259, 276-277, 329, 362, 390, 392-393, 397, 405

Caspian Sea, 3, 70, 78

casualties, xiv-xv; in air raids, 65-67; civilian, 61; German, 92, 111, 114, 131, 132, 145, 155, 157, 205, 229, 260, 280, 293, 309, 335, 344, 359; Italian, 259; among prisoners 388, 389, 390; Rumanian, 201-202, 213; Russian, 40, 68, 82, 101, 105, 110, 120, 125, 135, 136, 150, 157, 171, 241, 285, 368

Catherine the Great, 29

Caucasus Mountains, 15, 19, 29, 44, 85, 86, 152, 183, 203, 214, 229, 266, 310; German headquarters in, 79; oil fields, objective in German offensive, 24, 78, 118, 119

cavalry, see horses

cemeteries, military, 6, 114, 314

censors, military, 311, 312-313, 361, 386-387

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 398

Changar, Capt. Ignacy, 143-145, 324-325, 387, 397, 405

Chekhov, Anatoli, 145

Chemist’s Shop, battle for, 155, 156

Chemnitz, 225

Chernova, Tania, 106-107, 122-123, 145-146, 235-236, 386, 397, 405

Chiang Kai-shek, 83

Chileko, 33

China, 83

Chir, 164, 165, 167, 190, 196, 198

Chir River, 192, 201

cholera, 29

Christiakov, Gen., 183

Christmas Eve, battlefield observances of, 283, 284, 286-290, 295

Chuikov, Valentina, 124

Chuikov, Gen. Vassili Ivanovich, xii, 83-85, 86-88, 159-160, 176, 218, 220, 243, 316; headquarters, 93-94, 99, 124, 126, 136, 150, 167-168, 204, 284, 368, 378-379, 386; intelligence organization, 132; orders given by, 96, 134- 135; postwar career, 397-398; reinforcements requested, 136, 151; tactics adopted by 89-91, 234-235

Chungking, 83

Churchill, Winston, 48n, 88

CIA, 398

Circassians, 78

Clausius, Col., 354

clothing supplies, 164, 268, 352

Codre, Lt. Col., 113, 142