Battle of Stalingrad: The Week a City Became a Trap
On August 23, 1942, 600 German aircraft turned Stalingrad to rubble in an afternoon — and by nightfall, XIV Panzer Corps had reached the Volga, trapping the 62nd Army in a narrow strip against the river. This is the story of that first savage week: the firestorm, the factory workers who fought on their own shop floors, the snipers in the ruins, and how a city's destruction became the defender's greatest weapon.
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