Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2
Warfare usually slows down in winter. Not so in Russia in 1942. The Germans launch another huge attack to relieve the 6th Army in Stalingrad. But the Red Army has its own ideas.
Map 1: The long, long German lines to Stalingrad
Map 2: Operation Uranus
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Map 3a: Operation Winter Storm
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Map 3b: Operation Winter Storm fails
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Historical pictures
A Panzer III on the steppe in southern Russia, December 1942
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Soviet forces in southern Russia, winter 1942.
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Sources:
Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998.
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017
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