The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army. And now the offensive at Stalingrad, the epic clash that marked Germany's failure on the Eastern Front, was entering its grim final phase. Drawing on materials previously unavailable or believed lost, Glantz gives a closely-observed account of the final ten weeks of Germany's ill-fated Stalingrad campaign. In short order, the Red Army parried and then defeated two German attempts to rescue the Sixth Army, crushed the Italian Eighth and Hungarian Second Armies, severely damaged the German Fourth Panzer and Second Armies, and finally destroyed the German Sixth Army in the ruins of Stalingrad. With well over half-a-million soldiers torn from its order of battle, Hitler's Axis could only watch in horror as its status abruptly changed from victor to vanquished. These two books complete a vivid and detailed picture of the Axis defeat that would prove decisive.

This third volume of the Stalingrad Trilogy is divided between two volumes.

Book 1 :November 1942 -- book 2 : December 1942 -- January 1943.