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Why did the bombing meant to open Stalingrad instead build the fortress that broke the German Sixth Army?
Stripping away decades of myth, memoir distortion, and political accounting, Stalingrad: In 100 Facts re-examines the turning point of the Eastern Front through hard evidence, archival returns, and operational mechanics.
Written by independent military analyst Cornelis van Houte, this structured analysis challenges conventional narratives:
- The August 23 Raid: Why a thousand tons of explosives destroyed the water mains rather than the defenders, turning the city into a multi-kilometre labyrinth where rubble beat tanks.
- The Death Toll Dispute: Why the standard 40,000 daily casualty figure collapses under historical scrutiny—and why no one has a better replacement.
- Order 227 & The NKVD Returns: The gap between popular estimates of 13,500 executions and the internal NKVD return recording 278 shot versus nearly 15,000 soldiers returned to the line.
- The Tractor Factory: How Albert Kahn’s Detroit-designed plant kept churning out T-34s under 900+ sorties and fell while workers crewed their own unpainted hulls.
- Operation Uranus & The Airlift: How a naming convention for bomb racks starved a quarter-million men while Göring shopped in Paris.
- The Sniper Legend: Displacing the unverified Zaytsev-König duel with the tactical triad system that actually worked.
- The Last Field Marshal: Why Hitler promoted Paulus on his tenth anniversary to enforce an unwritten suicide note read at 07:00—and why Paulus declined the favor before breakfast.
Cornelis van Houte is an independent military analyst.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - >Stripping away decades of myth, memoir distortion, and political accounting, Stalingrad: In 100 Facts re-examines the turning point of the Eastern Front through hard evidence, archival returns, and operational mechanics. Written by independent military analyst Cornelis van Houte, this structured analysis challenges conventional narratives: - The August 23 Raid: Why a thousand tons of explosives destroyed the water mains rather than the defenders, turning the city into a multi-kilometre labyrinth where rubble beat tanks.- The Death Toll Dispute: Why the standard 40,000 daily casualty figure collapses under historical scrutiny-and why no one has a better replacement.- Order 227 & The NKVD Returns: The gap between popular estimates of 13,500 executions and the internal NKVD return recording 278 shot versus nearly 15,000 soldiers returned to the line.- The Tractor Factory: How Albert Kahn's Detroit-designed plant kept churning out T-34s under 900+ sorties and fell while workers crewed their own unpainted hulls.- Operation Uranus & The Airlift: How a naming convention for bomb racks starved a quarter-million men while Göring shopped in Paris.- The Sniper Legend: Displacing the unverified Zaytsev-König duel with the tactical triad system that actually worked.- The Last Field Marshal: Why Hitler promoted Paulus on his tenth anniversary to enforce an unwritten suicide note read at 07:00-and why Paulus declined the favor before breakfast.Concise, analytical, and grounded in primary source documentation, Stalingrad: In 100 Facts is essential reading for military history enthusiasts, tabletop strategists, and anyone seeking the mechanical reality behind the legend. Cornelis van Houte is an independent military analyst. Seller Inventory # 9798174260528