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Prologue: Along the Sukhaia Vereika River, 23 July 1942 1
1 The Wehrmacht 3
2 The Red Army 33
3 Preliminaries, April-June 1942 72
4 Punch and Counterpunch, Blau I, 28 June-12 July 1942 122
5 Blau II, 9-24 July 1942 167
6 The German Advance into the Great Bend of the Don, 23-31 July 1942 217
7 Endgame in the Great Bend of the Don, 1-19 August 1942 270
8 The German Advance to the Volga River, 20 August-2 September 1942 321
9 The Struggle on the Flanks, 25 July-11 September 1942 396
10 Conclusions: German Strategic Misconceptions 473
Appendix The Experiences of the Commanders of Tank Armies and Tank Corps assigned to Briansk, Southwestern, Southern, and Crimean Fronts and the Stavka Reserve from 1 May to 1 July 1942 and Stalingrad Front on 1 August 1942 487
Notes 505
Selected Bibliography 595
Index 609
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Ethan Golden
reviewed To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942, Vol. 1 on February 06, 2014
To the Gates of Stalingrad
I'm glad I read this, and I'll continue on to the next book in the trilogy (probably after a bit of a break), but there was definitely room for improvement.
The dry recitation of facts is the kind of thing I expect from military history at the operational level. That's a big part of these kinds of histories. Detailing exactly which units did what and when they did it. The missing part here is why they did it. There is some analysis of overall events at the end of each chapter, but not nearly enough to make sense of it all without further study of other sources.
Then there are the maps. The maps are simply awful. Did no one proof the maps? Most are all but unreadable, and none of them are very useful in helping to visualize things because of the poor quality of their reproduction. The maps alone dropped this from liking the book to just being OK.
Edit: I'm tempted to raise this a star after reading this volume for a second time, but I think all my points still stand, especially the terrible maps, which still end up keeping me from raising this to three stars.
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