ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. A regular officer in the 11th Hussras, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, while his works of non-fiction include The Spanish Civil War; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award; and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. With his wife, the writer Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris After the Liberation: 1944-1949. Antony Beevor is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres in France. Most of his titles are published by Penguin.
Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Proze for Non-fiction, the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999. It became a number-one bestseller both in hardback and paperback, the UK edition alone selling half a million copies, and has been published around the world in eighteen translations.
APPENDIX A
German and Soviet Orders of Battle, 19 November 1942
WEHRMACHT |
SIXTH ARMY | General of Panzer Troops Paulus Major-General Schmidt |
Ia Operations: | Colonel Elchlepp |
Ib Quartermaster: | Major von Kunowski |
Ic Intelligence: | Lieutenant-Colonel Niemeyer |
IIa Adjutant: | Colonel W. Adam |
Chief of Artillery: | Major-General Vassoll |
Chief of Signals: | Colonel Arnold* (replaced by Colonel van Hooven) |
Chief of Engineers: | Colonel H. Selle* (replaced by Colonel Stiotta*) |
Chief of Medical Corps: | General Renoldi |
OKH liaison officer: | Lieutenant-Colonel von Zitzewitz* |
ARMY TROOPS: MAJOR UNITS
Mortar regiments: 51st, 53rd
Nebelwerfer regiments: 2nd, 30th
Artillery regiments: 4th, 46th, 64th, 70th
Artillery battalions: 54th, 616th, 627th, 849th
Heavy-artillery battalions: 49th, 101st, 733rd
Pioneer battalions: 6th, 41st
IV CORPS | General of ioneers Jaenecke* Colonel Crome |
29th Motorized Infantry Division | Major-General Leyser |
297th Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General Pfeffer |
371st Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General Stempel |
VIII CORPS | General of Artillery Heitz Colonel Schildknecht |
76th Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General Rodenburg |
113th Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General Sixt von Arnim |
XI CORPS | Lieutenant-General Strecker Colonel Groscurth |
44th Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General Deboi |
376th Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General Freiherr Edler von Daniels |
384th Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General Freiherr von Gablenz* |
XIV PANZER CORPS | General of Panzer Troops Hube* Colonel Thunert* |
3rd Motorized Infantry division | Lieutenant-General Schlmer |
60th Motorized Infantry Division | Major-General Kohlermann* |
16th Panzer Division | Lieutenant-General Angern |
LI CORPS | General of Artillery von Seydlitz-Kurzbach Colonel Clausius |
71st Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General von Hartmann |
79th Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General Graf von Schwerin* |
94th Infantry Division | Lieutenant-General Pfeiffer* |
100th Jger Division | Lieutenant-General Sanne |
295th Infantry Division | Major-General Doctor Korfes |
305th Infantry Division | Major-General Steinmetz* |
389th Infantry Division | Major-General Magnus |
14th Panzer Division | Major-General Lattmann |
24th Panzer Division | Lieutenant-General von Lenski |
LUFTWAFFE GROUND TROOPS |
9th Flak Division | Major-General Pickert* |
luftwaffe air support |
4th Air Fleet | Colonel-General Freiherr von Richthofen |
VIII AIR CORPS | General Fiebig |
* flown out of the Kessel before the final surrender
died before or just after the final surrender
died in captivity
RED ARMY ON THE STALINGRAD AXIS
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STAVKA:
Army General G. K. Zhukov
Colonel-General of Artillery . N. Voronov
Colonel-General A. M. Vasilevsky
Stalingrad Front | Colonel-General A. I. Yeremenko N. S. Khrushchev |
62ND ARMY | General V. I. Chuikov |
Rifle Divisions: 13th Guards (A. I. Rodimtsev), 37th Guards (V. G. Zholudev), 39th Guards (S. S. Guriev), 45th, 95th (V. A. Gorishny), 112th, 138th (I. I. Lyudnikov), 193th (F. N. Smekhotvorov), 196th, 244th, 284th (N. F. Batyuk), 308th (L. N. Gurtiev); 10th NKVD Rifle Division (Rogatin) |
Marine Infantry Brigade: 92nd |
Special Brigades: 42nd, 115th, 124th, 149th, 160th |
Tank Brigades: 84th, 137th, 189th |
64TH ARMY | General M. S. Shumilov |
Rifle Divisions: 36th Guards, 29th, 38th, 157th, 204th |
Marine Infantry Brigade: 154th |
Special Brigades: 66th, 93rd, 96th, 97th |
Tank Brigades: 13th, 56th |
57TH ARMY | General F. I. Tolbukhin |
Rifle Divisions: 169th, 422nd |
Special Brigade: 143nd |
Tank Brigades: 90th, 235th |
*13th Mechanized Corps (T. I. Tanashchishin) |
51ST ARMY | General . I. Trufanov |
Rifle Divisions: 15th Guards, 91st, 126th, 302nd |
Special Brigade: 38th |
Tank Brigade: 254th |
*4th Mechanized Corps (V. T. Volsky) |
*4th Cavalry Corps (Shapkin) |
28TH ARMY |
Rifle Divisions: 34th Guards, 248th |
Special Brigades: 52, 152, 159 |
Tank Brigade: 6th Guards |
Stalingrad Front Reserve: 330th Rifle Division; 85th Tank Brigade |
8 AIR ARMY | General T. T. Khryukin |
Don Front | Colonel-General . K. Rokossovsky |
66TH ARMY | Major-General A. S. Zhadov |
Rifle Divisions: 64th, 99th, 116th, 226th, 299th, 343nd |
Tank Brigade: 58th |
24TH ARMY | General I. V. Galanin |
Rifle Divisions: 49th, 84th, 120th, 173rd, 233rd, 260th, 273rd |
Tank Brigade: 10th |
16th Tank Corps |