Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Fateful Battle 1
A City Under Siege 7
Interpretations of the Battle 13
Revolutionary Army 23
Stalin's City 26
Prewar Era 29
Army and Party in War 32
Commanders and Commissars 38
Politics, Up Close 42
The Hero Strategy 47
Good and Bad Soldiers 50
Forms of Combat 59
People in War 65
Historians of the Avant-Garde 68
The Commission in Stalingrad 77
The Transcripts 80
Editorial Principles 82
Chapter 2 A Chorus of Soldiers 85
The Fate of the City and Its Residents 86
Agrafena Pozdnyakova 132
Gurtyev's Rifle Division in Battle 141
Vasily Grossman's "In the Line of the Main Drive" 192
The Landing at Latoshinka 203
The Capture of Field Marshal Paums 222
Chapter 3 Hike Accounts of the War 263
General Vasily Chuikov 264
Guards Division General Alexander Rodimtsev 291
Nurse Vera Gurova 311
A Lieutenant from Odessa: Alexander Averbukh 316
Regimental Commander Alexander Gerasimov 324
The History Instructor: Captain Nikolai Aksyonov 331
Sniper Vasily Zaytsev 356
A Simple Soldier: Alexander Parkhomenko 374
Captain Pyotr Zayonchkovsky 378
Chapter 4 The Germans Speak 399
German Prisoners in February 1943 400
A German Diary from the Kessel 422
Chapter 5 War and Peace 431
Illustration Credits 445
Maps 445
Acknowledgments 451
Notes 455
Index 487