Peter Tsouras's Disaster at Stalingrad: An Alternate History PDF

By Peter Tsouras

It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the 6th military, basic Paulus, assisted by way of the Fourth Panzer military, is poised to improve at the Russian urban of Stalingrad. His basic undertaking used to be to take the town, crushing this significant heart of verbal exchange and production, and to safe the precious oil fields within the Caucasus.

What occurs subsequent is widely known to any pupil of contemporary heritage: a brutal conflict of attrition, characterised by means of fierce hand-to-hand wrestle, that lasted for almost years, and the eventual victory by means of a resolute Soviet crimson military. A ravaged German military was once driven into complete retreat. This was once the 1st defeat of Hitler’s territorial pursuits in Europe and a serious turning element of WWII.

But the end result might have been very diversified, as Peter Tsouras demonstrates during this attention-grabbing exchange heritage of this fateful conflict. by means of introducing minor - and sensible - alterations, Tsouras offers a situation during which the process the conflict runs particularly otherwise, which in flip throws up hectic chances in regards to the final result of the complete war.

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