To the Gates of Stalingrad

by Glantz, David M.

• ISBN13: 9780700616305
• ISBN10: 0700616306
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-21
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

David Glantz examines the Stalingrad campaign of the Second World War. The authors undertook extensive and painstaking research to produce a detailed account of the first phase of the battle for Stalingrad and the Caucasus oilfields south of the city. The battle proved to be a turning point in Hitler's fortunes in the war.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
Prologue: Along the Sukhaia Vereika River, 23 July 1942	p. 1
The Wehrmacht	p. 3
Rebuilding the Wehrmacht	p. 5
Satellite Armies	p. 8
The Strategic Picture	p. 9
Plan Fall Blau	p. 11
Axis Force Dispositions	p. 16
German Commanders	p. 19
The German Soldier	p. 31
The Red Army	p. 33
Rebuilding the Red Army	p. 33
The Strategic Debate	p. 37
The Khar'kov Plan	p. 45
Force Dispositions	p. 46
Red Army Leadership	p. 50
The Soviet Soldier	p. 68
Preliminaries, April-June 1942	p. 72
Operation Bustard Hunt [Trappenjagt]: The Battle for Kerch'	p. 72
Planning the Second Battle of Khar'kov	p. 77
Disaster on the Northern Donets, 12-29 May	p. 79
Rival Assessments, June 1942	p. 83
Sevastopol', 7-30 June	p. 85
Wilhelm, 10-15 June	p. 90
Fridericus, 22-25 June	p. 98
The Reichel Affair	p. 102
On the Eve	p. 104
Punch and Counterpunch, Blau I, 28 June-12 July 1942	p. 122
Area of Operations	p. 122
Penetration and Encirclement, 28 June-3 July	p. 125
The German Advance to Voronezh, 4-6 July	p. 143
5th Tank Army's Counterstroke, 6-12 July	p. 146
Hitler, Block, and Blau II (Operation Clausewitz)	p. 156
Conclusions	p. 164
Blau II, 9-24 July 1942	p. 167
Area of Operations	p. 167
Blau II: The Battle for the Donbas, 9-17 July	p. 171
The Formation of Stalingrad Front	p. 185
Hitler Alters Course	p. 190
The Advance to the Don: The Millerovo Encirclement and the Battle for Rostov, 17-24 July	p. 195
Hitler's Directive No. 45	p. 204
Conclusions	p. 214
The German Advance into the Great Bend of the Don, 23-31 July 1942	p. 217
Area of Operations	p. 217
Sixth Army's Advance to the Don, 17-25 July	p. 219
Stalingrad Front's Counterstroke, 26-31 July	p. 231
The Orel and Voronezh Axes, 20-26 July	p. 248
Not a Step Back!	p. 261
Conclusions	p. 265
Endgame in the Great Bend of the Don, 1-19 August 1942	p. 270
Hitler Alters Course	p. 270
Fourth Panzer Army's Advance to Abganerovo, 31 July-14 August	p. 277
Sixth Army's Advance to Kalach, 1-11 August	p. 290
Organizing Stalingrad's Defenses	p. 303
Sixth Army's Advance into the Northeast Corner of the Great Bend, 15-19 August	p. 308
Conclusions	p. 317
The German Advance to the Volga River, 20 August-2 September 1942	p. 321
Army Group B's Offensive Plan	p. 321
Stalingrad Front's Plans	p. 326
Sixth Army's Assault and Advance to the Volga, 21-23 August	p. 329
The Struggle for the Volga Corridor: The Soviet Counterstrokes at Kotluban' and Orlovka, 23-29 August	p. 339
62nd Army's Struggle, 23-29 August	p. 359
Fourth Panzer Army's Advance, 17 August-2 September	p. 364
The Situation in Stalingrad	p. 381
The Sideshows at Serafimovich and Kletskaia, 21-28 August	p. 383
Conclusions	p. 393
The Struggle on the Flanks, 25 July-11 September 1942	p. 396
Operation Edelweiss, Army Group A's Advance into the Caucasus	p. 396
Opposing Forces	p. 396
The Initial Advance, 25-31 July	p. 400
Command Decisions and Opposing Forces	p. 410
Army Group A's Exploitation to Stavropol', Maikop, and Krasnodar, 1-15 August	p. 416
The Initial Exploitation, 1-5 August	p. 416
The Soviet Reaction	p. 418
The Maikop Operation, 7-11 August	p. 419
The Krasnodar and Kuban' Operations, 12-15 August	p. 424
Army Group A's Advance to the Caucasus Mountains, 16 August-11 September	p. 431
The Mozdok Operation, 16-31 August	p. 432
Reorganization of Soviet Defenses	p. 437
The Novorossiisk and Taman' Operations, 19 August-11 September	p. 438
The Battle for the Caucasus Mountain Passes, 16 August-September	p. 446
The Northern Flank	p. 453
Voronezh Deja Vu	p. 453
The Struggle for the Rzhev Salient, 30 July-23 August	p. 456
The Zhizdra River Operation, 23-29 August	p. 461
The Battle for the Demiansk Pocket, August 1942	p. 463
The Flank Battles: An Assessment	p. 464
Conclusions: German Strategic Misconceptions	p. 473
Antecedents	p. 476
Blau I and II	p. 477
Altered Plans	p. 479
The Advance to Stalingrad	p. 481
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	p. 487
Notes	p. 505
Selected Bibliography	p. 595
Index	p. 609
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