Mensaje
por José Luis » Jue Mar 26, 2009 3:53 pm
¡Hola a todos!
A la espera de que me envíen finalmente el primer volumen de la trilogía, To the Gates of Stalingrad, he podido, sin embargo, echar un vistazo al libro, y debo decir que la impresión es estupenda. Sin duda alguna -por el esfuerzo realizado, por la gran cantidad de fuentes utilizadas, algunas inéditas, y por la exquisita estructura narrativa- estamos ante la obra definitiva sobre la campaña de Stalingrado.
Os adelanto la tabla de contenidos:
List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations (XI)
Preface (XVII)
Prologue: Along the Sukhaia Vereika River, 23 July 1942 (1)
1.The Wehrmacht (3)
-Rebuilding the Wehrmacht (5)
-Satellite Armies (8)
-The Strategic Picture (9)
-Plan Fall Blau (11)
-Axis Force Dispositions (16)
-German Commanders (19)
-The German Soldier (31)
2.The Red Army (33)
-Rebuilding the Red Army (33)
-The Strategic Debate (37)
-The Khar'kov Plan (45)
-Force Dispositions (46)
-Red Army Leadership (50)
-The Soviet Soldier (68)
3.Preliminaries, April-June 1942 (72)
-Operation Bustard Hunt [Trappenjagt]: The Battle for Kerch' (72)
-Planning the Second Battle of Khar'kov (77)
-Disaster on the Northern Donets, 12-29 May (79)
-Rival Assessments, June 1942 (83)
-Sevastopol', 7-30 June (85)
-Wilhelm, 10-15 June (90)
-Fridericus, 22-25 June (98)
-The Reichel Affair (102)
-On the Eve (104)
4.Punch and Counterpunch, Blau I, 28 June-12 July 1942 (122)
-Area of Operations (122)
-Penetration and Encirclement, 28 June-3 July (125)
-The German Advance to Voronezh, 4-6 July (143)
-5th Tank Army's Counterstroke, 6-12 July (146)
-Hitler, Bock, and Blau II (Operation Clausewitz) (156)
-Conclusions (164)
5.Blau II, 9-24 July 1942 (167)
-Area of Operations (167)
-Blau II: The Battle for the Donbas, 9-17 July (171)
-The Formation of Stalingrad Front (185)
-Hitler Alters Course (190)
-The Advance to the Don: The Millerovo Encirclement and the Battle for Rostov, 17-24 July (195)
-Hitler's Directive No. 45 (204)
-Conclusions (214)
6.The German Advance into the Great Bend of the Don, 23-31 July 1942 (270)
-Area of Operations (270)
- Sixth Army's Advance to the Don, 17-25 July (219)
-Stalingrad Front's Counterstroke, 26-31 July (231)
-The Orel and Voronezh Axes, 20-26 July (248)
-Not a Step Back! (261)
-Conclusions (265)
7.Endgame in the Great Bend of the Don, 1-19 August 1942 (270)
-Hitler Alters Course (270)
-Fourth Panzer Army's Advance to Abganerovo, 31 July-14 August (277)
-Sixth Army's Advance to Kalach, 1-11 August (290)
-Organizing Stalingrad's Defenses (303)
-Sixth Army's Advance into the Northeast Corner of the Great Bend, 15-19 August (308)
-Conclusions (317)
8.The German Advance to the Volga River, 20 August-2 September 1942 (321)
-Army Group B's Offensive Plan (321)
-Stalingrad Front's Plan (326)
-Sixth Army's Assault and Advance to the Volga, 21-23 August (329)
-The Struggle for the Volga Corridor: The Soviet Counterstrokes at Kotluban' and Orlovka, 23-29 August (339)
-62nd Army's Struggle, 23-29 August (359)
-Fourth Panzer Army's Advance, 17 August-2 September (364)
-The Situation in Stalingrad (381)
-The Sideshows at Serafimovich and Kletskaia, 21-28 August (383)
-Conclusions (393)
9.The Struggle of the Flanks, 25 July-11 September 1942 (396)
-Operation Edelweiss, Army Group A's Advance into the Caucasus (396)
--Opposing Forces (396)
--The Initial Advance, 25-31 July (400)
--Command Decisions and Opposing Forces (410)
-Army Group A's Exploitation to Stavropol', Maikop, and Krasnodar, 1-15 August (416)
--The Initial Exploitation, 1-5 August (416)
--The Soviet Reaction (418)
--The Maikop Operation, 7-11 August (419)
--The Krasnodar and Kuban' Operations, 12-15 August (424)
-Army Group A's Advance to the Caucasus Mountains, 16 August-11 September (431)
--The Mozdok Operation, 16-31 August (432)
--Reorganization of Soviet Defenses (437)
--The Novorossiisk and Taman' Operations, 19 August-11 September (438)
--The Battle for the Caucasus Mountain Passes, 16 August-September (446)
-The Northern Flank (453)
--Voronezh Déjà Vu (453)
--The Struggle for the Rzhev Salient, 30 July-23 August (456)
--The Zhizdra River Operation, 23-29 August (461)
--The Battle for the Demiansk Pocket, August 1942 (463)
-The Flank Battles: An Assessment (464)
10.Conclusions: German Strategic Misconceptions (473)
-Antecedents (476)
-Blau I and II (477)
-Altered Plans (479)
-The Advance to Stalingrad (481)
Appendix: The Experiencies of the Commanders of Tank Armies and Tank Corps assigned to Briansk, Southwestern, Southern, and Crimean Fronts and the Stavka Reserve from 1 May to 1 July 1942 and Stalingrad Front on 1 August 1942 (487)
Notes (505)
Selected Bibliography (595)
Index (609)
Creo que esta obra debe estar obligatoriamente en la biblioteca de todos los aficionados y estudiosos que leen en inglés.
Saludos cordiales
José Luis
"Dioses, no me juzguéis como un dios
sino como un hombre
a quien ha destrozado el mar" (Plegaria fenicia)