Stalingrad
Subtitle: the city that defeated the Third Reich
By: Jochen Hellbeck ; translated by Christopher Tauchen and Dominic Bonfiglio
Contributors: Tauchen, Christopher, translator; Bonfiglio, Dominic, translator
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781610394963
Subjects: Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943; Russian Personal narratives; German Personal narratives
Work titles: Stalingrad-Protokolle
Description: Contains testimonies of Red Army commanders and soldiers, party officials and workers regarding the 1942 battle at Stalingrad, during World War II.
Notes: "First published in Germany in 2012 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-486) and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: A Pivotal Struggle; title: Interpretations of the Battle; title: Revolutionary Army; title: Stalin's City; title: Prewar Era; title: Army and Party in War; title: Commanders and Commissars; title: Politics, Up Close; title: The Hero Strategy; title: Good and Bad Soldiers; title: Forms of Combat; title: People in War; title: Historians of the Avant-Garde; title: The Commission in Stalingrad; title: The Transcripts; title: Sources and Editorial Principles; title: 2. A Chorus of Soldiers; title: The Fate of the City and Its Residents; title: Agrafena Pozdnyakova; title: Gurtyev's Rifle Division in Battle; title: Vasily Grossman's "In the Line of the Main Drive"; title: The Landing at Latoshinka; title: The Capture of Field Marshal Paulus; title: 3. Nine Accounts of the War; title: General Vasily Chuikov; title: Guards Division General Alexander Rodimzev; title: Nurse Vera Gurova; title: A Lieutenant from Odessa : Alexander Averbuch; title: Regiment Commander Alexander Gerasimov; title: The History Instructor : Captain Nikolai Aksyonov; title: Sniper Vasily Zaytsev; title: A Simple Soldier : Alexander Parchomenko; title: Captain Pyotr Sayonchkovsky; title: 4. The Germans Speak; title: German Prisoners in February 1943; title: A German Diary from the Kessel; title: 5. War and Peace; title: Maps.