About the book: year / "Our entire army is captured in steel pincers. About 300 thousand people were surrounded - more than 20 first-class German divisions. We never even imagined the possibility of such a monstrous catastrophe!” – we read on the first pages of this book. As an intelligence officer in the 6th Army of Paulus, the author shared its tragic fate, going through all the circles of the Stalingrad hell - from the victorious summer offensive to the winter defeat and Soviet captivity. But this book is more than the revelations of a survivor who had a chance to “look into the abyss.” This is not only a chilling story about the horrors of the Stalingrad “cauldron”, about “lost victories” and “fatal decisions”, “dark days” and “painful agony”, “death sentence” and “inglorious end” of the 6th Army, it is also a deep analysis of the causes of the “VOLGA DISASTER”. Directly calling by name the main culprits of the defeat, the author does not limit himself to routine curses against Hitler, but also incriminates Field Marshal Manstein of unforgivable miscalculations, omissions and lies. “For Germany, the battle of Stalingrad was the most severe defeat in its entire history, but for Russia, its greatest victory.” Translation: A. Lebedev, N. Portugalov