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Warfare usually slows down in winter. Not so in Russia in 1942. The Germans launch another huge attack to relieve the 6th Army in Stalingrad. But the Red Army has its own ideas.
Map 1: The long, long German lines to Stalingrad
Map 2: Operation Uranus
Source: Awesome stories
Map 3a: Operation Winter Storm
Source: https://alchetron.com/cdn/operation-winter-storm-ee2a434c-cf0a-4ef4-a3c3-e87d2e84c08-resize-750.jpeg
Map 3b: Operation Winter Storm fails
Source: WWIIincolor.com
Historical pictures
A Panzer III on the steppe in southern Russia, December 1942
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Soviet forces in southern Russia, winter 1942.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Sources:
Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998.
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017
Sound effects by Zapsplat.
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Warfare usually slows down in winter. Not so in Russia in 1942. The Germans launch another huge attack to relieve the 6th Army in Stalingrad. But the Red Army has its own ideas.
Map 1: The long, long German lines to Stalingrad
Map 2: Operation Uranus
Source: Awesome stories
Map 3a: Operation Winter Storm
Source: https://alchetron.com/cdn/operation-winter-storm-ee2a434c-cf0a-4ef4-a3c3-e87d2e84c08-resize-750.jpeg
Map 3b: Operation Winter Storm fails
Source: WWIIincolor.com
Historical pictures
A Panzer III on the steppe in southern Russia, December 1942
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Soviet forces in southern Russia, winter 1942.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Sources:
Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998.
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017
Sound effects by Zapsplat.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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