Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • A Pivotal Struggle
  • Interpretations of the Battle
  • Revolutionary Army
  • Stalin's City
  • Prewar Era
  • Army and Party in War
  • Commanders and Commissars
  • Politics, Up Close
  • The Hero Strategy
  • Good and Bad Soldiers
  • Forms of Combat
  • People in War
  • Historians of the Avant-Garde
  • The Commission in Stalingrad
  • The Transcripts
  • Sources and Editorial Principles
  • 2. A Chorus of Soldiers
  • The Fate of the City and Its Residents
  • Agrafena Pozdnyakova
  • Gurtyev's Rifle Division in Battle
  • Vasily Grossman's "In the Line of the Main Drive"
  • The Landing at Latoshinka
  • The Capture of Field Marshal Paulus
  • 3. Nine Accounts of the War
  • General Vasily Chuikov
  • Guards Division General Alexander Rodimzev
  • Nurse Vera Gurova
  • A Lieutenant from Odessa : Alexander Averbuch
  • Regiment Commander Alexander Gerasimov
  • The History Instructor : Captain Nikolai Aksyonov
  • Sniper Vasily Zaytsev
  • A Simple Soldier : Alexander Parchomenko
  • Captain Pyotr Sayonchkovsky
  • 4. The Germans Speak
  • German Prisoners in February 1943
  • A German Diary from the Kessel
  • 5. War and Peace
  • Maps.