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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The steppe region of Russia is light brown in color, and is desolate except for a few rectangular patches of cultivated farmland. It has been that way for centuries. But on August 5, 1942, a malevolent presence intruded on the timeless scene. From the west, came giant pillars of dust.
#2 The German Sixth Army was far from total mechanization. It still relied on horses to move guns and supplies, as well as soldiers. The troops dug shallow foxholes and waited for the signal to attack.
#3 The German army was near Stalingrad, and the last escape route to the Don River was closing. The German generals were now concerned about the next phase of the offensive: fording the Don River and moving forty miles east to the Volga.
#4 The original plans for Operation Blue did not call for the capture of Stalingrad. In fact, the city was not a primary target for attack. The German army was to capture Stalingrad by force as soon as possible, and Colonel General Friedrich von Paulus was commander of the Sixth Army.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	03 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781669399452
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The steppe region of Russia is light brown in color, and is desolate except for a few rectangular patches of cultivated farmland. It has been that way for centuries. But on August 5, 1942, a malevolent presence intruded on the timeless scene. From the west, came giant pillars of dust.

#2

The German Sixth Army was far from total mechanization. It still relied on horses to move guns and supplies, as well as soldiers. The troops dug shallow foxholes and waited for the signal to attack.

#3

The German army was near Stalingrad, and the last escape route to the Don River was closing. The German generals were now concerned about the next phase of the offensive: fording the Don River and moving forty miles east to the Volga.

#4

The original plans for Operation Blue did not call for the capture of Stalingrad. In fact, the city was not a primary target for attack. The German army was to capture Stalingrad by force as soon as possible, and Colonel General Friedrich von Paulus was commander of the Sixth Army.

#5

In January 1942, Paulus finally got his life's desire: command of an army in the field. The two men could not have been more dissimilar. Reichenau was an ardent Nazi and a ruthless believer in Hitler's thesis of racial supremacy, while Paulus was a master of detail and fascinated with figures.

#6

The German Army under Friedrich von Paulus was instrumental in rallying the Wehrmacht from near disaster and trapping more than two hundred thousand Russians in a giant envelopment.

#7

The Sixth Army was a model of military brilliance, and in his camper, Friedrich von Paulus reflected on the good fortunes of past weeks. However, he neglected to mention several nagging concerns.

#8

The Italian Army was also sent to fight in the Soviet Union. While some soldiers were excited to be there, others were terrified. The Alpini, the elite mountain climbers of the Italian Army, were delighted to be given the task of guiding mules along.
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#1

In June 1942, Hitler launched Operation Blue, a campaign to strangle Russia's oil production and therefore her potential to wage modern war. The German Army easily penetrated the outskirts of Voronezh and commanders radioed for permission to seize the city. Hitler vacillated, leaving the decision to Army Group B's commander, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock.

#2

When Hitler pivoted an entire army across another's path, he defied the military maxim that any interference with the delicate internal functions of a massed body of troops often leads to chaos. The Sixth Army stopped dead when it reached the Russian steppe, and Russian rear guards disappeared into the eastern haze.

#3

Hitler was unperturbed by the intelligence reports. He scoffed when Halder showed him an intelligence estimate of more than a million Russian reserves still uncommitted behind the Volga. He had transferred Field Marshal Erich von Manstein and his five divisions from the Crimea north to Leningrad, and two elite panzer divisions, the Leibstandarte and Grossdeutschland, from southern Russia and sent them off to France.
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#1

Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union, and he had pursued this timetable for years. He was a tyrant who had studied for the priesthood, a revolutionist who had robbed banks to support the Bolshevist cause, a glutton, and a near drunkard.

#2

Stalin had made a decision that would change the course of history. He had sent a staff car to the entrance of the Kremlin's private quarters, and a squat, gray-haired officer had eased himself out of the back seat to limp painfully into the building. Stalin greeted him warmly.

#3

Stalin had asked Yeremenko to take charge of the Southeastern Front and stop the German Fourth Panzer Army from reaching the Volga River. He had sounded optimistic, but sixty miles to the southwest, German tanks were brushing aside scattered Russian resistance and charging toward the city.
Insights from Chapter 4

#1

The city of Stalingrad, which was about to become a battlefield, was sweltering under the summer sun. The people of Stalingrad were used to being uncomfortable, and they joked about how the heat made the concrete sidewalks bulge and buckle upward.

#2

When General Yeremenko first looked down on Stalingrad, he was amazed by the city’s beauty. The general’s underground command post was located in the city’s heart, only five hundred yards away from the western shore of the Volga in the north wall of a two hundred-foot deep, dried-up riverbed called Tsaritsa Gorge.

#3

Yeremenko knew that eventually he would have to fight for Stalingrad block by block and street by street. So, as he pored over the map, he embarked on a peculiar mental exercise: replacing the map’s impersonal symbols with his own images of rock formations, houses, and streets.

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