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Title: Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943 (Modern War Studies(Paper)) by Joel S. A. Hayward ISBN: 0-7006-1146-0 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (44 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Historians and serious Stalingrad readers must read this
Comment: So Beevor's book gained wide publicity and sold in great quantities. Effective marketing and its corresponding sales do not mean it is the best book on Stalingrad.
Perhaps Hayward's book IS.
Because I wanted to know WHY things became as violent and bloody and chaotic as Beevor portrayed, I needed a book that explained the strategy employed by German attackers, Russian defenders and then Russian attackers and German defenders. I also need to know WHY the Germans ever thought Stalingrad was strategically important, WHY Hitler refused to abadon it even after his Sixth Army got surrounded there, why GOERING promised to keep that army fully supplied by air, WHY the local air force leaders said that it could not be thus supplied, WHY Hitler listened to Goering, WHY the Luftwaffe failed so badly, and WHY Goering didn't get the sack.
All these questions are answered in a highly original study by Joel Hayward, whose fluency with German sources is noteworthy. His answers don't fit the traditional explanations and in fact, he demolishes many long-held beliefs.
While condemning the Nazi leadership he pays tribute to the Luftwaffe's exceptionally hardworking and industrious commanders at the front. They tried incredibly hard and did far better than circumstances ordinarily would have allowed. Sadly for Sixth Army it was not enough, and Richthofen the brilliant senior air commander never recovered from his sense of failure. Stalingrad broke him physically and emotionally.
Also important in Hayward's book is his skilful analysis of the Luftwaffe's key role in the Battles of Kharkov, Kerch and Sevastopl, events that were ignored for too long by schlars unwilling or unable to spend months in German military archives like Hayward did.
His unparallelled use of archival material, his carefull assessment of all material, his compelling and hard-to-refute arguments all turn this fluently-written book into the definitive account, in any language, of the Stalingrad airlift.
You must read this book if you want to understand how the German army almost took Stalingrad (mainly because of the Luftwaffe's excellent close air support and logistical support of oil and fuel to panzer vanguards) and why it ultimately failed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Rich academic study. Accurate and informative.
Comment: This is a detailed book with a strong analytical component, great new photographs, and a good bilingual bibliography. The author begins in March 1942 and takes the Stalingrad campaign through to its death in February 1942. Both air force and ground operations get good coverage, but the real strength of this book is its explanation of how the two branches (and even the German navy in the Black Sea) cooperated together. The account is based on a careful reading of scores of unpublished war diaries and other rare documents, and is therefore a nice surprise after reading countless previous Stalingrad books which all quote the same, readily available sources (Lost Victories, Chuikov's book, etc). The book is stronger overall than Beevor's book, even if the latter is faster paced and has more on the Soviets.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant blend of narration and operational explanation!!!
Comment: You'll have to search hard to find any book that better interweaves a rollicking good narrative with top-notch scholarly analysis of tactics, operational art and strategy. Added to that are good clear maps, a helpful glossary, thorough source and footnote details and a full index. This book initially upset a lot of buffs by slaying several sacred cows, yet Hayward's interpretations have not only survived, but they have been widely accepted by scholars and Stalingrad enthusiasts alike. This has indeed, as another reviewer noted, become a necessary "standard work" on Stalingrad.
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Title: Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments by Joachim Wieder, Heinrich Graf Von Einsiedel ISBN: 0304363383 Publisher: Cassell Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius (Stackpole Military History Series) by Otto Carius, Robert J. Edwards ISBN: 0811729117 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor ISBN: 0140284583 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies) by David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House ISBN: 0700608990 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.05 |
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Title: Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig ISBN: 1568523688 Publisher: Konecky & Konecky Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.98 |
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