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With an estimated death toll in an excess of a million, the bloodletting at Stalingrad far exceeded that of Verdun, one of the costliest battles of World War I." [39] According to military historian Louis A. DiMarco, "In terms of raw casualty numbers, the battle for Stalingrad was the single most brutal battle in history."
The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest single battle in the history of warfare (casualties estimates vary between 1,250,000 [24] and 2,500,000 [25] [26]). The battle began on August 23, 1942, and on the same day, the city suffered heavy aerial bombardment that reduced most of it to rubble. Martial law had already been declared in the city ...
Zaitsev fought at the Battle of Stalingrad until January 1943, when a mortar attack injured his eyes. Some conflicting stories state it was a landmine, but the doctor who treated Zaitsev and eventually restored his eyesight was ophthalmologist Vladimir Filatov , founder of the Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy in Odessa , and ...
The Battle of Stalingrad is largely seen as the defining battle of urban warfare, with the battle commonly studied and referenced in studies of urban warfare. The battle was the single largest and costliest urban battle ever, with it being seen as the worst and most extreme case of urban warfare.
The battle was known to those who fought it as the "Italian Stalingrad," [3]: 289 [6] and as "Little Stalingrad", [7] [8] for the brutality of its close-quarters combat, [9] which was only worsened by the chaotic rubble of the town and the many booby traps used by both sides.
Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мама́ев курга́н) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in Southern Russia. The name in Russian means "tumulus of Mamai". [1] The formation is dominated by a memorial complex commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943).
The German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad in late 1942 had weakened the German front. By January 1943, Soviet forces were planning or conducting offensive operations across the entire German-Soviet Front, especially in southern Russia; Iskra formed the northern part of the wider Soviet 1942–1943 winter counteroffensive.
German commanders at the Battle of Stalingrad (26 P) German units at the Battle of Stalingrad (19 P) W. Works about the Battle of Stalingrad (2 C, 9 P)