Victory on the Volga

De: Konstantin Rokossovsky

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Fair warning. This is not a page-turning memoir. Marshal Rokossovskiy (who is editor, not author) and the gang of military men who helped him produce this tome did not set out to write a novel. This is a compendium of military reports, and analysis of those reports, dealing with the entire campaign of which Stalingrad was the centerpiece. It is an exhaustive detailing of events taking place between July 1942 and February 1943 as far north as Voronezh Oblast', as far west as Ukraine and as far south as Dagestan.

In translating other books dealing with Stalingrad, I was left wondering why I did not know exactly what happened in the great bend of the Don and on the Don-Volga land bridge in July, August and September of 1942. It seemed to me I was doing a lot of research. Now I understand. Soviet memoirists gloss over it because a full explanation requires another book. Or merely part of this book. See Chapters Two, Three and Four.

Extremely detailed accounts are also given of Operation Uranus, Operation Little Saturn, Operation Kol'tso and the campaign to defeat Army Group Hoth in December 1942.

Unfortunately, the preview you can see on Kindle will not give you a very good idea of the amount of information related here. I simply didn't feel it was right to omit Chapter One. Try this: buy the book, page ahead to later chapters, and, if you don't like it, you can get a refund.

I am a terrible salesman. I'll get back to translating. That I can do.