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Maps |
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Page |
| 1. |
German-Soviet Frontier, 22 June 1941 |
6 |
| 2. |
The German Advance, 22 June-12 November 1941 |
26 |
| 3. |
Army Group Center, 15 November-5 December 1941 |
38 |
| 4. |
Army Group South, 28 November-3 December 1941 |
56 |
| 5. |
Army Group North, 1 December 1941 |
58 |
| 6. |
The Moscow Counteroffensive, Phase I, 6-15 December 1941 |
72 |
| 7. |
The Moscow Counteroffensive, Phase II, 16 December 1941-1 January 1942 |
89 |
| 8. |
Soviet Kerch Offensive, 16 December 1941-18 January 1942 |
107 |
| 9. |
The Fanatical Resistance, 1-14 January 1942 |
121 |
| 10. |
The Soviet General Offensive, North Flank, 6 January-22 February 1942 |
144 |
| 11. |
The Soviet General Offensive, South Flank, 16 January-1 February 1942 |
157 |
| 12. |
The General Offensive, Army Group Center, 24 January-18 February 1942 |
162 |
| 13. |
Army Group Center, 18 February-20 April 1942 |
174 |
| 14. |
Army Group North, 20 February-8 May 1942 |
187 |
| 15. |
Partisan Areas, April 1942 |
211 |
| 16. |
Northern Theater, Winter 1942 |
221 |
| 17. |
The Kestenga-Loukhi Sector, April-May 1942 |
227 |
| 18. |
The Zapadnaya Litsa Front, 27 April-14 May 1942 |
230 |
| 19. |
Operation HANN0VER, 24 May-21 June 1942 |
243 |
| 20. |
Operation SEYDLITZ, 2-12 July 1942 |
249 |
| 21. |
Operation VOGELSANG, 6 June-4 July 1942 |
253 |
| 22. |
The Reconquest of Kerch, 8-19 May 1942 |
263 |
| 23. |
The Soviet Offensive, Kharkov, 12-19 May 1942 |
274 |
| 24. |
The German Counteroffensive, Kharkov, 17-28 May 1942 |
277 |
| 25. |
Plan for Summer Offensive, Army Group South, 19 February
1942 |
288 |
| 26. |
Summer Campaign Projected in Directive 41, 5 April 1942 |
289 |
| 27. |
The Battle for Sevastopol, 7 June-4 July 1942 |
313 |
| 28. |
Operation WILHELM, 10-15 June 1942 |
315 |
| 29. |
Operation FRIDERICUS II, 22-25 June 1942 |
317 |
| 30. |
Operation BLAU-BRAUNSCHWEIG, 28 June-11 July 1942 |
335 |
| 31. |
Operation BLAU-BRAUNSCHWEIG, 14-31 July 1942 |
350 |
| 32. |
Operation EDELWEISS, 31 July-10 October 1942 |
368 |
| 33. |
The Advance to Stalingrad, 31 July-3 September 1942 |
383 |
| 34. |
Stalingrad, 8 September-6 October 1942 |
389 |
| 35. |
Soviet Attacks, Rzhev and Vorya River Areas, 30 July-23 September 1942 |
399 |
| 36. |
Operation WIRBELWIND, 11-24 August 1942 |
401 |
| 37. |
Army Group North, July-August 1942 |
410 |
| 38. |
The MGA Bottleneck, 27 August-25 September 1942 |
417 |
| 39. |
Operations SCHLINGPFLANZE and WINKELRIED, 27 September-9 October 1942 |
422 |
| 40. |
The Nalchik Operation, 25 October-9 November 1942 |
453 |
| 41. |
Stalingrad-North, 13 October-19 November 1942 |
461 |
| 42. |
Operation URANUS, 19-23 November 1942 |
469 |
| 43. |
MALYY SATURN, 16 December 1942-19 January 1943 |
487 |
| 44. |
Operation KOLTSO, 10 January-2 February 1943 |
498 |
Illustrations |
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Page |
| The German Field Artillery Moves Out |
5 |
| Marshal S. K. Timoshenko |
9 |
| G. K. Zhukov |
9 |
| Captured Soviet Troops March Past a Peasant Village |
27 |
| SS-Men Cross the Beresina River Alongside a Wrecked Bridge |
31 |
| Crew of 88-mm. Gun Searches for Targets on the Approach
to Kiev |
35 |
| Women Fire Fighters Keep Lookout Over the Rooftops
of Leningrad |
36 |
| Moving Supplies in the Rainy Season |
41 |
| KV Tank Headed for the Front Rumbles Through Pushkin Square,
Moscow |
48 |
| Panzer III Tank and Infantry Advance Over Rutted but Frozen Road |
52 |
| Soviet Gunners Man a Machine Gun West of Moscow |
59 |
| Crew of German s.F.H. 18, 150-mm. Howitzer, Bundled-Up Against
the Cold |
64 |
| Half-Track Attempts To Haul a 150-mm. Howitzer |
71 |
| A German Column Stalled in the Snow |
76 |
| German Mortar Squad on the March |
79 |
| Germans Surrender to a Soviet Soldier |
85 |
| Soviet Infantry on the Attack |
91 |
| Trying On Winter Gear, Which Was Too Slow in Coming |
92 |
| After a Pause It Is Time for the German Troops To Move On
Again |
93 |
| Villagers Greet the Crew of a Soviet T-60 Tank |
99 |
| Soviet Naval Craft Lays a Smoke Screen Off Sevastopol |
109 |
| Soviet Troops Landing on the Kerch Peninsula |
111 |
| Civilians Shovel Snow To Open the Road Through a Village |
119 |
| An Army Commander (Weichs, fourth from left) Sets Out
for the Front |
124 |
| German Infantry Enter a Village |
126 |
| Before a Sign Reading, "Defend Moscow! for Yourselves and for the
Whole Soviet People," Women Work on Artillery Shells |
136 |
| Soviet 152-mm. Gun-Howitzer Firing North of Lake Ilmen |
146 |
| General A. I. Eremenko |
149 |
| Sled-Mounted German Antitank Gun |
160 |
| German Sentry on the Ruza River Line |
165 |
| German Machine Gunners Dig In West of Sychevka |
168 |
| Germans Dug-In: Four Knocked-Out Soviet Tanks in the
Distance |
175 |
| Soviet Infantry Fire on a Village in the Enemy Rear |
181 |
| Melting Snow Has Turned Roads Into Rivers |
183 |
| German Outpost Line West of Rzhev |
184 |
| Machine-Gun Nest on the Volkhov Front |
196 |
| Poster Reads, "Partisans! Avenge Without Mercy!" |
201 |
| Partisans Listen to a Soviet Newspaper Being Read |
205 |
| Improvised Armored Train on Patrol Against Partisans |
210 |
| Woman Partisan Hanged From Lenin Statue in Voronezh |
218 |
| Outpost on the Verman River Line |
224 |
| Infantry Take Cover in the III Corps Sector |
229 |
| German Ski Patrol, Kestenga Front |
231 |
| German Submarine on the Wait in the Arctic |
235 |
| A Camouflaged Tank Trap in the Forest |
248 |
| Bringing Up an Antitank Gun in the Belyy Gap |
251 |
| Machine-Gun Squad at the Volkhov Pocket |
256 |
| Generals Vlasov and Lindemann Talk at Eighteenth Army
Headquarters |
258 |
| General von Richthofen (second from right) Discusses an Air
Strike With His Staff |
265 |
| Aiming a Six-Inch Rocket Projector |
268 |
| Tankmen Flush Out Soviet Soldiers After the Battle |
271 |
| T-34 Tank Crews Brush Up on Tactics |
276 |
| PAK 40, 75-mm. Antitank Gun Crew on the Watch |
280 |
| Hitler's "Young" Troops on the March |
291 |
| Improvised Mobility: The "Marder" (Martin), Captured
Soviet 76.2-mm. Antitank Gun on an Obsolete Tank Chassis |
295 |
| New T-34 Tanks Move Up to the Front |
301 |
| German 150-mm. K-18 Guns Open Fire |
311 |
| Soviet Rear Guards Engage an Enemy Armored Car |
320 |
| Field Marshal von Bock (seated in car) |
323 |
| New 75-mm. Self-Propelled Assault Gun at Practice |
327 |
| Panzer III Tanks on the Attack |
334 |
| Self-Propelled Assault Gun and Mounted Troops Crossing the
Oskol River |
338 |
| Panzer III Tank in Voronezh |
341 |
| An Infantry Division Heads East at the Pace of Its Horses |
345 |
| German Tanks Rove Over the Steppe in Search of Targets |
352 |
| General Hoth (center) Gives an Order at the Don Crossing |
356 |
| Soviet Antitank Gun Crew Comes Under Fire |
359 |
| Abandoned T-34 Tank Provides Cover for a German Observer |
364 |
| Soviet Machine Gunners Dug-In Outside Novorossiysk |
367 |
| German 75-mm. Antitank Gun in the Caucasus Foothills |
373 |
| German Mountain Troops in the Sancharo Pass |
374 |
| Soviet Mortar Squad Firing East of Tuapse |
380 |
| Sixth Army's Tanks Crossing the Don at Vertyachiy |
386 |
| German Machine Gunner Looks Across the Volga North
of Stalingrad |
388 |
| General Paulus (right) Watches the Attack on Stalingrad.
Behind Him the Commander of LI Corps, Seydlitz |
390 |
| Fourth Panzer Army's Infantry on the Defensive at Kuporosnoye |
392 |
| Machine-Gun Nest North of Rzhev |
402 |
| Quadruple Antiaircraft Guns Guard a Bridge on the
Zhizdra River |
406 |
| A Tiger Tank Waits for a Tow |
419 |
| Lookout Near Kestenga |
425 |
| The Cruiser Koeln on Station in Alta Fiord |
429 |
| The "Patriotic War": A Tank Crew and Their Tank Named
"Kutuzov" |
433 |
| Woman Sniper Lieutenant Poses With Her Rifle and Medals |
436 |
| General N. F. Vatutin, Commander of Southwest Front |
442 |
| On the Attack at the Stalingrad Gun Factory |
463 |
| Rubble Provides Cover for Soviet Soldiers |
466 |
| German Field Artillery Fires into Stalingrad |
467 |
| T-34 Tanks Advancing at Speed |
475 |
| Self-Propelled Assault Guns Attack in Operation WINTERGEWITTER |
481 |
| A Column of T-34 Tanks in Operation MALYY SATURN |
486 |
| Soviet Infantry on the March Toward the Donets River |
495 |
| Sixth Army Survivors March Out of Stalingrad Under Guard |
500 |