Vasilevsky, Marshal Alexander Mikahilovich, 26, 85-86, 88, 117, 161-162, 173, 183, 203, 217, 228, 231-232, 233-234, 241
Vassilevska, 250, 258, 266, 273, 274, 279
Vatutin, Gen., 161, 183, 300, 301
Verkhne-Kumski, 237, 239, 240, 241, 243, 250, 253, 254
Verkhne-Tsaritsyn, 231
Vertaichy, 112, 388
Victor Emmanuel, King, 305
Viersen, xi
Vinnitsa, Nazi headquarters at, 17, 21, 79, 85, 110
Viskov, Constantin, 54, 59, 97
Vitebsk, 211
Vladimir prison camp, 390
vodka, rations of, 168-169, 324, 325
Vodolagin, Mikhail, 60, 68-69, 97
Volga River, xi, xv, 3, 8, 28, 36, 55-56 61; crossed by Mongols, 28; crossing points, 34, 69, 124-125; described, 32, 38; ferry landing on, 89, 91, 110; German moves toward, 20, 21, 24, 52, 91, 92, 111, 119, 141; ice bridge over, 220, 307; replacements ferried over, 112, 124, 125, 128; Russian defenses of, 9.
Volgograd Defense Museum, xii, 406
Volsky, Gen. Viktor T., 173-174, 191, 202
Voporonovo, 355
Voronezh, 154, 388, 422; battle at, 18-19, 24, 121, 155
Voronov, Gen. N. N., 315-316, 333,
Wagemann Capt. Eberhard, 354
Wagner, Gustav, 270, 271
war crimes, Germans accused of, 400, 436
Warsaw, 15
weapons, 14, 36, 95.
weather, effect of on battle, 28, 33, 163-164, 183-184, 186, 194, 217, 222, 291, 303
Weichs, Gen. Freiherr von, 192, 200
Wenck, Col. Walter, 214, 228
Wendt, Siegfried, 198, 406
Werth, Alexander, 336
West Germany, 396, 399, 402, 403, 435; army of, 401.
wheat: harvest, 32; and Nazi objectives, 119; supplies, 102, 142
White Army, Russian, 20, 30
Wiedemann, Sgt., 195-196
Wiesbaden, 46
Willig, Capt., 325
Wirkner, Sgt. Hubert, 210, 224-225, 324, 338, 357-359, 365, 381, 403, 406
Wohlfahrt, Sgt. Ernst, 138-139, 156, 338, 351-352, 406
Wolf’s Lair,
workers, mobilization of,
World War I, xiv, 15, 29, 212; veterans of, 12, 13, 130
wounds, self-inflicted, 353-354
Yamy, 80, 83, 84, 88
Yelchenko, Lt. Fyodor, 377-378, 379n
Yelin, Col., 92, 93, 102-103, 119
Yelshanka, 54, 60
Yeremenko, Gen. Andrei Ivanovich, 25-27, 30, 53, 151, 187, 192, 222, 403; demoted, 301-302, 320; given supreme responsibility for defense of Stalingrad, 48; orders given by, 54, 74, 75, 134; plan of defense, 32-38, 45, 47-48, 73-74; Stalin and, 61, 83, 88; visit to Chuikov command post, 135-136.
Young Fascist League, 15
Yugoslavia, 4
Zabolotnov, Lt., 119
Zaitsev, Vassili, 121-122, 127-130, 145-146, 236, 386, 397, 403-404
Zaitsevski Island, 243
Zeitzler, Gen. Kurt, 163, 199, 206-207, 210, 217, 232, 246, 271, 274, 277, 333, 356, 381-386
Zholudev, Gen. Victor, 123, 134, 136, 150, 285
Zhukov, Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich, x, 70-71, 77-78, 85, 86, 88, 117, 158, 217, 218, 228, 301-302,
404; plan for counterattack, 161-162, 171, 173-174, 404
Zitzewitz, Maj. Coelestin von, 210-211, 303-304, 354, 356-357, 404
Zybenko, 286, 334, 335
About the Author
William Craig (1929-97), a native of Concord, Massachusetts, was educated at Columbia University. His first book,
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