description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Moscow, Siege of Leningrad, Operation Bagration, Battle of Smolensk, Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, Lower Dnieper Offensive, Vistula-Oder Offensive, Vienna Offensive, Tartu Offensive, Baltic Offensive, Race to Berlin, East Pomeranian Offensive, East Prussian Offensive, Battles of Rzhev, Operation Mars, Battle of the Caucasus, Crimean Offensive, Battle of Romania, Operation Cedar, Oranienbaum Bridgehead, Bombing of Stalingrad in World War II, Barvinkove-Losowaja Operation. Excerpt: Operation Blau: German advances from 7 May 1942 to 18 November 1942 The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943. It was among the largest on the Eastern Front and was marked by its brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It was amongst the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare with the higher estimates of combined casualties amounting to nearly two million deaths. In its defeat, the crippling losses suffered by Germany's military proved to be insurmountable for the war. The battle was a turning point in the war, after which the German forces attained no further strategic victories in the East. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad commenced in late summer 1942, supported by intensive Luftwaffe bombing which reduced much of the city to rubble. The German offensive eventually became bogged down in house-to-house fighting; and despite controlling over 90% of the city at times, the Wehrmacht was unable to dislodge the last Soviet defenders clinging tenaciously to the west bank of the Volga River. In November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus; a two-pronged ...
title: World War II Aerial Operations and Battles of the Eastern Front: Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Moscow, Siege of Leningrad
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