ENDGAME AT STALINGRAD: BOOK TWO: DECEMBER 1942–-FEBRUARY 1943 (MODERN WAR STUDIES: THE STALINGRAD, VOL. 3)
Book ID/图书代码： 13585015B77929
English Summary/英文概要： In Book Two of the third volume of his magisterial Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz continues and concludes his definitive history of one of the most infamous battles of World War Two, the Stalingrad campaign that signaled Germany’s failure on the Eastern Front and marked a turning point in the war. Book Two finds Germany’s most famous army—General Friedrich Paulus’s Sixth—in dire straits, trapped in the Stalingrad kessel, or pocket, by a Red Army that has seized the initiative in what the Soviets now term the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army’s counteroffensive, Operation Uranus, is well underway, having largely destroyed the bulk of two Romanian armies and encircled the German Sixth and half of the German Fourth Panzer Army.
Drawing on materials previously unavailable or believed lost, Glantz gives a closely observed account of the final ten weeks of Germany’s ill-fated Stalingrad campaign. In short order, the Red Army parried and then defeated two German attempts to rescue the Sixth Army, crushed the Italian Eighth and Hungarian Second Armies, severely damaged the German Fourth Panzer and Second Armies, and finally destroyed the German Sixth Army in the ruins of Stalingrad. With well over half-a-million soldiers torn from its order of battle, Hitler’s Axis could only watch in horror as its status abruptly changed from victor to vanquished. This book completes a vivid and detailed picture of the Axis defeat that would prove decisive as a catastrophe from which Germany and its Wehrmacht could never recover.
As in the preceding volumes, Glantz extensively mines newly available materials to provide a clearer and more accurate picture of what actually happened at Stalingrad at this crucial moment in World War II—a "ground truth" that gets beyond the myths and misinformation surrounding this historic confrontation. And this concluding chapter, relating events even more steeped in myth than those that came before, is especially bracing as it takes on controversial questions about why Operation Uranus succeeded and the German relief attempts failed, whether the Sixth Army could have escaped encirclement or been rescued, and who, finally was most responsible for its ultimate defeat. The answers Glantz provides, embedded in a fully-realized account of the endgame at Stalingrad, make this book the last word on one of history’s epic clashes.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这部权威性的斯大林格勒战役三部曲的第二部中，作者继续概括了他对二战中最臭名昭著的战役之一——斯大林格勒战役的历史定论。斯大林格勒战役预示着德国在东线的失败，标志着二战的转折点。读者在这本书中会发现德国号称的王牌军队，弗里德里希保卢斯的第6集团军，陷入了斯大林格勒之战的泥潭进退维谷，最后被红军包围，而苏联红军，称之为‘伟大的卫国战争’中抓住了战争的主动权。随后红军发起反攻，在‘天王星行动’顺利推进，在很大程度上摧毁了两支罗马尼亚军队的主力，并包围了德国第6集团军和一半的第四装甲部队。
作者利用之前无法获得或被认为已丢失的资料，对德国命运多舛的斯大林格勒战役的最后10周进行了仔细观察。很快，红军阻扰并击败了德军试图营救被困第六集团军行动，粉碎了意大利第八装甲团和匈牙利第二集团军的军事部署，最后将这支王牌军摧毁于斯大林格勒的废墟中。超过50万的士兵命丧于这场战役，希特勒的轴心国只能惊恐地看着自己的地位从胜利者突然变成了失败者。本书为轴心国的战败圈出了一幅生动而详细的画面，这场战败被证明是一场决定性的灾难，德国及其(纳粹)国防军将永远在这场战役后大势已去。
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Awards/获奖情况："Glantz is the world’s top scholar of the Soviet-German War."—Journal of Military History
About the Author/作者介绍： David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House have collaborated on all three volumes of the Stalingrad Trilogy, as well as on the books When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler and The Battle of Kursk. A retired U. S. Army colonel fluent in Russian, Glantz is the author of numerous books, including The Battle for Leningrad, 19411944; Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, and Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania. House is the author of Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century.
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