The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin's order: "Not a Step Back!" The Soviets' resulting tenacious defense of the city led to urban warfare for which the Germans were totally unprepared, depriving them of their accustomed maneuverability, overwhelming artillery fire, and air support?and setting the stage for debacle. Armageddon in Stalingrad continues David Glantz and Jonathan House's bold new look at this most iconic military campaign of the Eastern Front and Hitler's first great strategic defeat. While the first volume in their trilogy described battles that took the German army to the gates of Stalingrad, this next one focuses on the inferno of combat that decimated the city itself. Previous accounts of the battle are far less accurate, having relied on Soviet military memoirs plagued by error and cloaked in secrecy. Glantz and House have plumbed previously unexploited sources?including the archives of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) and the records of the Soviet 62nd and German Sixth Armies?to provide unprecedented detail and fresh interpretations of this apocalyptic campaign. They allow the authors to reconstruct the fighting hour by hour, street by street, and even building by building and reveal how Soviet defenders established killing zones throughout the city and repeatedly ambushed German spearheads.

Includes maps of: Russian Map of Stalingrad with Grid Sectors Added by Germans; German Map of Stalingrad Identifying Key Points in the City; 6th Army's Situation, 22-23 August 1942; Hitler's Change in Plan, 13 July 1942; Hitler's New Plans of 23 and 30 July 1942; Stalingrad and Its Environs; Stalingrad Front's Kotluban Offensive, 3-12 September 1942; Operations along the Stalingrad Axis, 3-12 September 1942; Stalingrad's Defensive Lines and Fortified Positions; 6th Army's Situation, 3-4 September 1942; 2nd Tank Corps' Situation, 1 September-25 October 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 5-6 September 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 7-8 September 1942; 23rd Tank Corps' Situation, 8-21 September 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 9-10 September 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 11-12 September 1942; Operations along the Stalingrad Axis, 13 September-8 October 1942; German Advance into Stalingrad, 10-18 September 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 13-14 September 1942; 62nd Army's Counterattacks, 13-14 September 1942; 48th Panzer Corps' Situation, Late on 14 September 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 15-16 September 1942; 48th Panzer Corps' Advance, 15 September 1942; Dispositions of 13th Guards Rifle Division's 34th and 42nd Guards Rifle Regiments, 16 September 1942; 112th Rifle Division's Situation, 15-20 September 1942; 48th Panzer Corps' Advance, 16 September 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 17-18 September 1942; Dispositions of 13th Guards Rifle Division, 17-19 September 1942; 48th Panzer Corps' Advance, 17-18 September 1942; 92nd Rifle Brigades' Situation, 0600 Hours, 20 September 1942; Stalingrad Front's Kotluban Offensive, 18-22 September 1942; Stalingrad Front's Kotluban Offensive, 23 September-2 October 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 19-20 September 1942; Struggle for Mamaev Kurgan, 20 September-5 October 1942; Dispositions of 13th Guards Rifle Division, 21 September 1942; Battle for Central Stalingrad, 22-26 September 1942; Battle for Central Stalingrad, 30 September-1 October 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 27-28 September 1942; German Grid Square Designations in Stalingrad's Factory District; Battle for Krasnyi Oktiabr and Barrikady Villages, 27 September-3 October 1942; 51st Army Corps' Assault, 27-28 September 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 29-30 September 1942; 51st Army Corps' Assault, 29-30 September 1942; Battle for Orlovka, 29 September-3 October 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 1-2 October 1942; 51st Army Corps' Situation, 1-2 October 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 3-4 October 1942; 51st Army Corps' Assault, 3-4 October 1942; 112th Rifle Division's Situation, 3-4 October 1942; 51st Army Corps' Limited Objective Attacks, 5-7 October 1942; 37th Guards Rifle Division's Dispositions, 5 October 1942; 57th and 51st Armies' Counterstroke, 28-30 September 1942; 64th Army's Counterattack, 1-2 October 1942; Don Front's Kotluban Counterstroke, 9-11 October 1942; 37th Guards Rifle Division's Dispositions, 0600, 10 October 1942; Deployment of Romanian 3rd Army along the Don River, 1-10 October 1942 - Western Portion; Deployment of Romanian 3rd Army along the Don River, 1-10 October 1942 - Eastern Portion; 6th Army's Situation, 13-14 October 1942; 51st Army Corps' Assault, 14-15 October 1942; 112th Rifle Division's Situation, 14-16 October 1942; 37th Guards Rifle Division's Dispositions, 14 October 1942; 95th Rifle Division's Dispositions, 2100, 14 October 1942; Battle for Rynok and Spartanovka, 15 October-17 November 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 15-16 October 1942; 51st Army Corps' Assault, 16-18 October 1942; Dispositions of the 138th Rifle Division, 1200, 17 October 1942; Dispositions of the 138th Rifle Division, 2400, 17 October 1942; Dispositions of the 138th Rifle Division, 1200, 18 October 1942; Dispositions of the 138th Rifle Division, 2100, 18 October 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 19-20 October 1942; Dispositions of the 138th Rifle Division, 1900, 19 October 1942; Dispositions of the 138th Rifle Division, 2000, 20 October 1942; Don Front's Kotluban Counterstroke, 20-26 October 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 23-24 October 1942; 51st Army Corps' Dispositions, 23 October 1942; Krasnyi Oktiabr Factory; 51st Army Corps' Assault, 23-31 October 1942; Dispositions of 138th Rifle Division's 768th and 344th Regiments int he Barrikady Factory, 1800, 23 October 1942; Dispositions of 138th Rifle Division in the Barrikady Factory, 0800, 25 October 1942; Dispositions of 138th Rifle Division, 2000, 28 October 1942; 64th Army's Counterstroke, 25 October-2 November 1942; Mozdok-Malgobek Operation, 2-28 September 1942; Tuapse Operation, 23 September-31 October 1942; Nalchik-Ordzhonikidze Operation, 25 October-12 November 1942; Voronezh Front's Voronezh Offensive, 15-19 September 1942; Operations at Demiansk, 15 September-9 October 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 31 October-1 November 1942; Situation, 1 November 1942; Situation, Late on 10 November 1942; 51st Army Corps' Assault, 11-12 November 1942; 138th Rifle Division's Defense, 0400 11-0400 13 November 1942; Group Schwerin's (79th Infantry Division's) Assault on Hall No. 4 (the Martenovskii Shop), 11 November 1942; Dispositions of 193rd Rifle Division's 685th Regiment and 95th Rifle Division to Link up with 138th Rifle Division, 12-22 November 1942; 51st Army Corps' Assault, 13-15 November 1942; Dynamics of the 138th Rifle Division's Battle, 0530-1800, 13 November 1942; 6th Army's Situation, 14-15 November 1942; Dispositions of 138th Rifle Division, 0400-1900, 14 November 1942; Struggle for Liudnikov's Island, 16-18 November 1942; 95th Rifle Division's Dispositions, 2000, 18 November 1942.

1. The Germans at the gates -- 2. The battle in Stalingrad's suburbs, 3-12 September 1942 -- 3. The battle for central and southern Stalingrad, 13-26 September 1942 -- 4. The initial assault on the workers' villages and reduction of the Orlovka salient, 27 September-3 October 1942 -- 5. The final assault on the workers' villages and battles on sixth army's flanks, 3-13 October 1942 -- 6. The struggle for the tractor factory and Spartanovka, 14-22 October 1942 -- 7. The assaults on the Krasnyi Oktiabr' and Barrikady factories, 23-31 October 1942 -- 8. The struggle on the flanks, 11 September-18 November 1942 -- 9. The assaults on the Barridady and Krasnyi Oktiabr' factories, 1-18 November 1942 -- 10. Conclusions.