Illustrations

1. (Previous page) Autumn 1941. Soviet prisoners of war being herded to the rear.
2. July 1942. German infantry marching towards Stalingrad.
3. A village destroyed in the advance.
4. German tanks on the Don steppe.
5. August 1942. German artillery outside Stalingrad.
6. Dr Alois Beck, chaplain of the 297th Infantry Division, writing letters for the wounded.
7. Paulus, Hitler, Keitel, Haider and Brauchitsch at the Wolfsschanze, near Rastenburg.
8. September 1942. Tanks of the 24th Panzer Division advancing into the outskirts of Stalingrad.
9. September 1942. Red Army tank troops listening to a speech from Khrushchev before going into battle.
10. The view which greeted Russian reinforcements about to cross the Volga into battle.
11. German officer and soldiers attacking factory buildings in northern Stalingrad.
12. Russian infantry defending.
13. October 1942. Round-up of Stalingrad civilians.
14. 62nd Army HQ. Krylov, Chuikov, Gurov and Rodimtsev.
15. (Overleaf) Red Army assault squad in the ‘Stalingrad Academy of street-fighting’.
16. (Previous page) One of Chuikov’s divisional commanders during the battle, with a young woman signaller.
17. October 1942. German infantry occupying a destroyed workshop in the factory district.
18. ‘Noble Sniper’ Zaitsev (left) from the Siberian 284th Rifle Division explains the doctrine of ‘sniperism’.

19 and 20. November 1942. Operation Uranus: the encirclement of the Sixth Army.
21. Junkers 52 transport taking off.
22. December 1942. German artillery from Hoth’s Fourth Panzer Army after the failure of Operation Winter Storm to relieve the Sixth Army.
23. Trapped Sixth Army soldiers retrieve parachute canisters.
24. 10 January 1943. General Rokossovsky awaits the opening barrage for Operation Ring to crush the Kessel.
25. 11 January 1943. German infantry retreating through a blizzard.
26. 28 January 1943. General Edler von Daniels marches into captivity past the body of one of his soldiers.
27. 30 January 1943. Goering on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s assumption of power, having just broadcast ‘the funeral oration’ of the Sixth Army.
28. 31 January 1943. Field Marshal Paulus and General Schmidt at 64th Army HQ after surrendering.
29. A German soldier booted and prodded out of a bunker.
30. Remnants of the Sixth Army marched off to captivity.
31. German and Romanian prisoners.
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