Stalingrad: the city that defeated the Third Reich

1. Introduction

A Pivotal Struggle

Interpretations of the Battle

Revolutionary Army

Stalin's City

Prewar Era

Army and Party in War

Commanders and Commissars

Politics, Up Close

The Hero Strategy

Good and Bad Soldiers

Forms of Combat

People in War

Historians of the Avant-Garde

The Commission in Stalingrad

The Transcripts

Sources and Editorial Principles

2. A Chorus of Soldiers

The Fate of the City and Its Residents

Agrafena Pozdnyakova

Gurtyev's Rifle Division in Battle

Vasily Grossman's In the Line of the Main Drive

The Landing at Latoshinka

The Capture of Field Marshal Paulus

3. Nine Accounts of the War

General Vasily Chuikov

Guards Division General Alexander Rodimzev

Nurse Vera Gurova

A Lieutenant from Odessa : Alexander Averbuch

Regiment Commander Alexander Gerasimov

The History Instructor : Captain Nikolai Aksyonov

Sniper Vasily Zaytsev

A Simple Soldier : Alexander Parchomenko

Captain Pyotr Sayonchkovsky

4. The Germans Speak

German Prisoners in February 1943

A German Diary from the Kessel

5. War and Peace

Maps.