{"product_id":"stalingrad-battle-atlas-volume-i-paperback","title":"Stalingrad Battle Atlas: volume I - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnton Joly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e The New 2017 Revised Edition has been awarded the APMC Cultural Price at the \u003ci\u003eSalon de l'Histoire\u003c\/i\u003e in Paris. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Flames reached hundreds meters high, buildings collapsed and steel melted down: it seemed everything would be destroyed in this inferno, yet men kept on fighting.\"\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This depiction by Major-General Alexander Rodimtsev, 13th Guards Division's Commander, refers to the first German assault in the city on 14 September 1942. The fighting in Stalingrad indeed presented exceptional features. There eventually converged the essentials of the war in the East, not only a clash of armies and ruthless ideologies but also one of civilizations, where the invaders were not seeking to conquer another vassal state but to erase an entire culture from the face of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Seventy years after, the release of new material from the Soviet archives finally allows to contemplate a detailed, exact study of the conflict, including new outstanding opportunities for mapping each single day of this terrible struggle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This first volume of the Stalingrad Battle Atlas series covers 30 days of fighting within the city. It relies upon hundreds of wartime reports and recently released archival documents translated by the author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The main sources consist in German 6th Army and Soviet 62nd Army War Diaries, along with data on their units, corps, divisions and regiments. Based on the precise information these documents provide, this volume features specifically designed \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003emaps with unit positions for each day of active operations.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Synthesizing a wide range of documents and 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, order of battle, unit strength returns, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Main features: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e o Latest available documents from archives \u003cbr\u003e o Tactical \u0026amp; Strategic Maps \u003cbr\u003e o Order of Battle \u0026amp; Strength Returns \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 548 pages \u003cbr\u003e 45 maps \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA new perspective of the legendary battle on the Volga\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 550\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.23 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52628179190067,"sku":"9791093222035","price":36.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/a05jRVpBbm9IeTZaUGNKLzh5SWh2UT09.webp?v=1762106351","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/stalingrad-battle-atlas-volume-i-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}