Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East

Soviet victory over Germany was the most fateful development of World War II. The purpose of this book is to investigate one aspect of the Soviet victory – how the war was won on the battlefield. The author sought, in following the march of the Soviet and German armies from Stalingrad to Berlin, to depict the war as it was and to describe the manner in which the Soviet Union emerged as the predominant military power in Europe.

Content:

Invasion

Retreat

Stalingrad the Encirclement

Stalingrad the Turning Point

The Countermarch

The Center and the North

Operation Zitadelie

The First Soviet Summer Offensive

The Battle for the Dnepr Line.

The Rising Tide

Offensives on Both Flanks- the South Flank

Offensives on Both Flanks-the North Flank

Paying the Piper

Prelude to Disaster

The Collapse of the Center

The South Flank

Retreat and Encirclement

Defeat in the North

The January Offensive

The Defense of the Reich

Earl F. Ziemke is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he received a Ph. D. degree in history. In World War II he served with the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific theater.