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Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army
Hans Wijers
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Paperback. Winter Storm depicts the life of German soldiers trapped in the city by Soviet forces who confronted not only enemy troops but also extreme hunger and frigid weather. Included are a variety of rare photographs that bring to life this truly desperate period of the war. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480. The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue Sixth Army. 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. Winter Storm depicts the life of German soldiers trapped in the city by Soviet forces who confronted not only enemy troops but also extreme hunger and frigid weather. Included are a variety of rare photographs that bring to life this truly desperate period of the war. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 19. Weight: 474.
Battling frigid weather, malnutrition and the constant onslaught of enemy fire, those who took part in the pivotal Battle of Stalingrad were sujected to some of the most challenging conditions of the battlefield. At times during the five bloody and desperate months of the conflict the average Soviet soldier’s life-expectancy dropped to just under 24 hours. Of the 91,000 German soldiers captured over the course of the battle only 5,000 survived to return to their homeland. It is thought that nearly two million lost their lives as a result of the deadly clash between the advancing German forces and the ... Read more
Battling frigid weather, malnutrition and the constant onslaught of enemy fire, those who took part in the pivotal Battle of Stalingrad were sujected to some of the most challenging conditions of the battlefield. At times during the five bloody and desperate months of the conflict the average Soviet soldier’s life-expectancy dropped to just under 24 hours. Of the 91,000 German soldiers captured over the course of the battle only 5,000 survived to return to their homeland. It is thought that nearly two million lost their lives as a result of the deadly clash between the advancing German forces and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Stackpole Military History Series
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, United States
ISBN
9780811710893
SKU
V9780811710893
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About Hans Wijers
Hans Wijers has written or edited several other accounts of World War II, including Eastern Front Combat.
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