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Robert Forczyk Stalingrad 1942–43 (1) (Paperback) Campaign (UK IMPORT). Author: Robert Forczyk. Title: Stalingrad 1942–43 (1). The Soviet Red Army was hit hard by the initial German offensive but held onto the city and then launched OperationUranus, a winter counteroffensive that encircled the German 6. Further DetailsTitle: Stalingrad 1942–43 (1) Condition: New Description: The first in a three-book series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich. After failing to defeat the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Adolf Hitler planned a new campaign for the summer of 1942 that was intended to achieve a decisive victory: Operation Blue (Case Blau). In this new campaign, Hitler directed that one army group (Heeresgruppe A) would advance to seize the Soviet oilfields in the Caucasus, while the other (Heeresgruppe B) pushed on to the Volga River. The expectation was for a rapid victory – instead, German forces had to fight hard just to reach the outskirts of Stalingrad, and then found themselves embroiled in a protracted urban battle amid the ruins of a devastated city on the Volga.The Soviet Red Army was hit hard by the initial German offensive but held onto the city and then launched Operation Uranus , a winter counteroffensive that encircled the German 6. Armee at Stalingrad. Despite a desperate German relief operation, the Red Army eventually crushed the German forces and hurled the remnants of the German southern front back in disorder.This first volume in the Stalingrad trilogy covers the period from 28 June to 11 September 1942, including operations around Voronezh. The fighting in the Don Bend, which lasted weeks, comprised some of the largest tank battles of World War II – involving more armour than the tanks employed at Prokhorovka in 1943. Author: Robert Forczyk EAN: 9781472842657 Contributor: Steve Noon (Illustrated by) ISBN: 9781472842657 Format: Paperback Item Height: 248mm Item Length: 184mm Item Weight: 310g ISBN-10: 1472842650 Illustrator: Steve Noon Genre: History Publisher: Osprey Publishing Release Date: 01/21/2021 Language: English Subtitle: The German Advance to the Volga Series: Campaign Topic: Military History, Law & Politics Item Width: 8mm Release Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
