David M Glantz

The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army. Now the offensive at Stalingrad, the epic lash that marked Germany's failure on the Eastern Front, was entering its grim final phase. In Book one of the third volume,, the "ground truth" to counter a half-century's worth of myth and misinformation of the beginning of the end of one of the most infamous battles of the Second World War and one...

This volume and the series that provides its context, restores that which was lost and concealed to the historical record. Exploring newly-released Russian archival materials, it reveals the unbounded ambitions that shaped the Stavka's winter offensive and the full scope and scale of the Red Army's many offensive operations. For example, it reflects on recently-rediscovered Operation Mars, Marshal Zhukov's companion-piece to the more famous Operation...