Stalingrad
豆瓣
The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
Antony Beevor
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In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'.
The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally destructive to both armies. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his decline. An extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature of war itself, Stalingrad will act as a testament to the vital role of the soviet war effort.
目录
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF MAPS
PREFACE
PART ONE
‘THE WORLD WILL HOLD ITS BREATH!’
1 The Double-Edged Sword of Barbarossa
2 ‘Nothing is Impossible for the German Soldier!’
3 ‘Smash in the Door and the Whole Rotten Structure Will Come Crashing Down!’
4 Hitler’s Hubris: The Delayed Battle for Moscow
PART TWO
BARBAROSSA RELAUNCHED
5 General Paulus’s First Battle
6 ‘How Much Land Does a Man Need?’
7 ‘Not One Step Backwards’
8 ‘The Volga is Reached!’
PART THREE
‘THE FATEFUL CITY’
9 ‘Time is Blood’: The September Battles
10 Rattenkrieg
11 Traitors and Allies
12 Fortresses of Rubble and Iron
13 Ρaulus’s Final Assault
14 ‘All For the Front!’
PART FOUR
ZHUKOY’S TRAP
15 Operation Uranus
16 Hitler’s Obsession
17 ‘The Fortress Without a Roof’
18 ‘Der Manstein Kommt!’
19 Christmas in the German Way
PART FIVE
THE SUBJUGATION OF THE SIXTH ARMY
20 The Air-Bridge
21 ‘Surrender Out of the Question’
22 ‘A German Field Marshal Does Not Commit Suicide with a Pair of Nail Scissors!’
23 ‘Stop Dancing! Stalingrad Has Fallen’
24 The City of the Dead
25 The Sword of Stalingra
APPENDIX A:
German and Soviet Orders of Battle, 19 November 1942
APPENDIX B:
The Statistical Debate: Sixth Army Strength in the Kessel
REFERENCES
SOURCE NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX