STALINGRAD BATTLE ATLAS

This is the New 2017 Revised Edition&ldquo,We realized that the decisive battle had come, and that if we can survive it, the Germans were unlikely to muster such powerful forces again.",Thus wrote Lieutenant-General V.I. Chuikov, 62nd Army Commander, about 14 October 1942. As hundreds of tons of steel where hurled against the Soviet defenders, the Germans unleashed a critical onslaught in what they perceived as theur D-day for Stalingrad.This same day Hitler issued the winter standby directive to his troops on the eastern front. It read