A top-down treatment of battle planning and maneuvering of forces by high-level staff and commanders, with the detailed order of battle and statistical information one has come to expect from David Glantz and Jonathan House.""- The Historian; ""The team of Glantz and House has once again collaborated and has successfully completed the superb trilogy on Stalingrad.""- Army History; ... Read more""Fifteen years ago the late John Erickson wrote that the research of Glantz and house reflected an 'encyclopaedic knowledge' of the Nazi-Soviet war and constituted a benchmark for excellence in the field. The Stalingrad Trilogy reflects the fact that they maintain that standard, while bringing to light a new understanding of many old questions.""- War in History; ""After providing us with the magisterial When Titans Clashed, Glantz and House have now supplemented this account with a masterful documentation of Stalingrad.""- The Russian Review; ""Glantz is the world's top scholar of the Soviet-German War.""- Journal of Military History; ""David Glantz has done something very few historians achieve. He has redefined an entire major subject: the Russo-German War of 1941-1945.""- World War II; ""Glantz and House are writing the definitive history of the Stalingrad campaign. Their trilogy, backed by meticulous scholarship and refreshingly fair minded, significantly alters long-accepted views of several important aspects of the campaign. . . . A monumental work that is unlikely to be surpassed as an account of the most important single campaign of the Second World War.""- Evan Mawdsley, author of Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945; ""A magisterial study that draws on a wealth of previously inaccessible Red Army records and will be indispensable reading for all serious students of the battle.""- Michael K. Jones, author of Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed Show Less