Decisive Battles of Hitler's War: Stalingrad
Russia in the late summer of '42 was poised on the edge of an abyss. German troops had swept across the Russian step in an unstoppable wave of weaponry and soldiers. Moscow and Leningrad were being crushed, but they were the prelude to battlefield glory. Hitler became anxious to claim his most prestigious objective - which bore the leaders name - Stalingrad, soon within german tank sites.