Stalingrad Battle Atlas: Volume III/Anton Joly

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The New 2017 Revised Edition has been awarded the APMC Cultural Price at the Salon de l'Histoire in Paris. "All this will go down in Military History as a brilliant example of the enemy's operational art." Such were the words of Field-Marshal Friedrich Paulus, talking to his former staff members shortly after the end of the battle. No one could better summarize the events that took place around Stalingrad in late November 1942. The Red Army defeated the Wehrmacht against all odds in one of the most dramatic battles in History. How such a miracle has been made possible ? What exactly happened each single day of this giant struggle ? The third volume of the "Stalingrad Battle Atlas" series covers Operation Uranus, the Soviet counteroffensive which ended up with German VI Army's encirclement between Don and Volga. It relies upon hundreds of wartime reports and recently released archival documents translated by the author. Based on the precise information these documents provide, this volume features specifically designed maps with unit positions for each day of active operations. Synthesizing an extremely wide range of documents and information sources, this chronological atlas seeks to reach the maximal degree of precision in describing historical reality, rendering it through a standardized set of instruments: timeline, orders of battle, unit strength returns, tactical or strategic situation maps, contextual photos, quotes from key actors. It can be used as a reference manual for searchers, as well as a guide for those who want to know the basics: Who, When, Where. In 2015 the Russian Federal Archive Agency, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Historical Society and the German Historical Institute in Moscow publicly released large archival funds of Soviet and German records. This new edition of the Stalingrad Battle Atlas series thus benefits from the most substantial set of available wartime documents. This volume also icludes previously unpubli