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The Stalingrad Cauldron: Inside the Encirclement and Destruction of the 6th Army (Modern War Studies)
Frank Ellis
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Description for The Stalingrad Cauldron: Inside the Encirclement and Destruction of the 6th Army (Modern War Studies)
Hardcover. An exceptionally detailed account of the German 6th Army's battle to take Stalingrad from the moment it reaches the Volga, through the desperate street battles, to final collapse and captivity. Tells this story from the unique perspective of the German officers and men trapped inside the Red Army's ever-closing ring of forces." Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 953.
The encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad in mid-November 1942 and its final collapse in February 1943 was a signature defeat for Hitler, as more than 100,000 of his soldiers were marched off into captivity. Frank Ellis tackles this oft-told tale from the unique perspective of the German officers and men trapped inside the Red Army's ever-closing ring of forces. This approach makes palpable the growing desperation of an army that began its campaign confident of victory but that long before the end could see how hopeless their situation had become.
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The encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad in mid-November 1942 and its final collapse in February 1943 was a signature defeat for Hitler, as more than 100,000 of his soldiers were marched off into captivity. Frank Ellis tackles this oft-told tale from the unique perspective of the German officers and men trapped inside the Red Army's ever-closing ring of forces. This approach makes palpable the growing desperation of an army that began its campaign confident of victory but that long before the end could see how hopeless their situation had become.
Highlighting these pages are three previously ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619016
SKU
V9780700619016
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About Frank Ellis
Frank Ellis is the author of Vasiliy Grossman: The Genesis and Evolution of a Russian Heretic; From Glasnost to the Internet: Russia’s New Infosphere; and The Damned and the Dead: The Eastern Front through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists. A former academic and veteran of the British army, he currently lives in the United Kingdom.
Reviews for The Stalingrad Cauldron: Inside the Encirclement and Destruction of the 6th Army (Modern War Studies)
Full of rigid scholarship and new insights into the life and death of the 6th Army.""- Infantry; ""... taps previously unpublished Wehrmacht records to offer vivid testimony.""- World War II Magazine; ""[A] detailed and enlightening look at the German 6th Army's tenacious but doomed resistance. Ellis uses a wide range of newly uncovered German and Russian sources to ... Read more