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To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II are sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets hard-won victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the river Volga. To Russians it was a pivotal landmark of their nations losses, with more than two million civilians and combatants either killed, wounded, or captured during the bitter fighting from September 1942 to February 1943. Both sides endured terrible conditions in brutal, relentless house-to-house fighting.
Within this life-and-death struggle, Soviet war correspondents lauded the fight for a key strategic building in the heart of the city, Pavlovs House, which was situated on the frontline and codenamed The Lighthouse. The legend grew of a small garrison of Russian soldiers from the 13th Guards Rifle Division holding out against the Germans of the Sixth Army, which had battled its way to the very center of Stalingrad. A report about the battle in a local Red Army newspaper would soon grow and be repeated on Moscow radio and in countless national newspapers. By the end of the war, the legend would gather further momentum and inspire Russians to rebuild their destroyed towns and cities.
This story has become a pillar of the Stalingrad legend and one that can now be analyzed and told accurately. The Lighthouse of Stalingrad sheds new light on this iconic battle through the prism of the two units who fought for the very heart of the city itself. Iain MacGregor traveled to both German and Russian archives to unearth previously unpublished testimonies by soldiers on both sides of the conflict. His riveting narrative lays to rest the questions as to the identity of the real heroes of this epic battle for one of the citys most famous buildings and provides authoritative answers as to how the battle finally ended and influenced the conclusion of the siege of Stalingrad.
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Published by Constable
ISBN: 978-1-47213-522-3
Copyright Iain MacGregor, 2022
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall,
and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill House of Commons, August 2, 1944, War Situation
As Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America I congratulate you on the brilliant victory at Stalingrad of the armies under your Supreme Command. The one hundred and sixty-two days of epic battle for the city which has for ever honored your name and the decisive result which all Americans are celebrating today will remain one of the proudest chapters in this war of the peoples united against Nazism and its emulators.
Memo from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Premier Joseph Stalin, February 6, 1943
For Cameron and Isla
Pavlovs House is a symbol of the heroic struggle of all defenders of Stalingrad. It will go down in the history of the defense of the glorious city as a monument to the military skill and valor of the guards.
Lieutenant Juliy Petrovich Chepurin, correspondent for 62nd Army, Stalingrad, October 31, 1942
April 5, 1942
Hitler Directive No. 41 on the German offensive in southern Russia
April 24, 1942
Alexander M. Vasilevsky takes over as chief of the Soviet General Staff (formally appointed to the post June 26, 1942)
May 12, 1942
Beginning of the Soviet offensive at Kharkov
May 17, 1942
The Germans counterattack at Kharkov
May 2324, 1942
Encirclement and destruction of Soviet armies involved in their failed Kharkov offensive
June 28, 1942
Beginning of German offensive ( Case Blue) in southern Russia
July 14, 1942
Fall of Sevastopol to German Eleventh Army (von Manstein)
July 6, 1942
Voronezh on the Don captured by the Germans
July 9, 1942
German Army Group South command split between Army Group A and Army Group B
July 12, 1942
Formation of Stalingrad Front Soviet army group
July 2324, 1942
German forces take Rostov-on-Don
July 23, 1942
Hitler Directive No. 45 orders simultaneous main offensives on Stalingrad and toward the Caucasus
July 28, 1942
Stalin issues Order No. 227 (Not One Step Back!)
August 9, 1942
The Maikop oil fields are captured by the Germans
August 19, 1942
Paulus leads the Sixth Army towards Stalingrad from their positions on the Don Bend
August 2324, 1942
The Luftwaffe begins carpet-bombing of Stalingrad
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