Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught Book

Preface     xi
Foreword   David M. Glantz     xv
List of Plates     xix
A Note on the Illustrations     xxii
Maps and Documents     xxiii
Timeline     xxx
Introduction: The Last of the Mohicans     1
Veteran Testimony     2
How the Battle was Seen by Others     5
Stalingrad: A Brief Overview     6
Tactical Innovation     9
The Psychological Dimension     11
Anatoly Mereshko - a Key Witness     12
Leadership - the Vital Factor     14
Morale and Motivation     15
A Daunting Opponent     17
Not a Step Back!     19
The German Plan     20
The Russian Experience     23
The Battle on the Don     27
Professionalism     30
Logistics     32
Communications     34
Army unity     36
Battle memory     37
Ineffective Leadership - the Story of the Bear Catcher     38
The 'Not a Step Back!' Order     41
Stalin's City     45
Stalin's Railway     46
The Vulnerability of the City     48
The Defence Lines     50
'Inner Defence'     52
The Terror Raid     56
Mass Panic     59
The Orlovka Salient     61
Gorokhov's Northern Group     63
Lion on the Volga     64
Time is Blood     65
Leadership and the 62nd Army     67
A Crucial Confrontation     70
'A Son of the Century': Military Career of Vasily Chuikov     72
The Achilles Heel     82
Toughness in command     83
A distrust of blueprints     85
The ordinary soldier is closest in my thoughts     88
Leadership from the front     90
Chuikov and Krylov: A Vital Partnership     92
The Rival Commanders: Chuikov and Paulus     94
The First Crisis     96
Alexander Rodimtsev: The Importance of Divisional Command     98
The 62nd Army and the NKVD     101
The German Breakthrough     103
Rodimtsev's 13th Guards - What Really Happened     106
The Race for the Ferry Point     110
The Preparation of the Troops     111
The Crossing     112
Courage Born of Desperation. The September Battles      116
The Grain Elevator     117
The Central Railway Station     121
Storming the Mamaev Kurgan     127
September Snapshots     131
The Day of Death     135
The German Night Attack     143
Pavlov's House     145
The Emergence of Storm Groups     146
The Commander     152
The Fifty-Eight Days     152
The Garrison     153
The House's Name     153
Strongpoints     156
Everyday Life     159
Communal Singing     160
A Tale of Two Pavlovs     161
Mikhail Panikakha Anatomy of a Heroic Deed     163
The Battle Situation     164
Tank Fright     167
A Broken Chain of Command     169
The Impact of Smekhotvorov's Leadership     172
The Last Hours of Mikhail Panikakha     173
The Inspiration     174
The Birth of 'Sniperism'     176
'My First Ten'     177
Letters Home     179
Opening an Account 'of Revenge'     180
Chuikov's Decision     181
Hunting the Enemy     183
The Communist Version of the Battle      184
Zaitsev's Duel     185
The Turning Point     188
Defending the Orlovka Salient     189
The Balance of Forces     194
Zholudev's Redoubt     197
The Onslaught     201
The Council of War     208
The Day of Decision     214
There is No Land for us Beyond the Volga     219
An Army of Mass Heroism     223
In the Main Line of Attack     223
Camaraderie     227
Rituals     233
A Village on the Volga     235
The Loss of the 62nd Crossing     236
How Steel is Formed     238
The Victory Parade     241
Lyudnikov's Island     243
Bullet-Proof Batyuk     244
The German Surrender     245
Conclusion: The Mamaev Kurgan     248
Mist Over the Volga     250
62nd Army Order of Battle - 1 November 1942     251
List of Veterans     252
Further Veteran Testimony     257
Russian Ministry of Defence Archive, Podolsk     258
Corresponding German Material     258
Notes     259
Further Reading      264
Index     265