Focuses on the inferno of combat that decimated the city of Stalingrad during the German offensive. The authors reconstruct the fighting hour by hour, street by street, and even building by building to reveal how Soviet defenders established killing zones throughout the city and repeatedly ambushed German spearheads.

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...