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Episode 520-Operation Uranus
While Stalingrad holds out, additional Soviet Armies are being assembled nearby. And in mid November they would be launched, to either side of Gen. P…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 519-Defeat is Always Possible. But Will it Be Today?
Stalingrad’s defenders are pushed to the breaking point. Worse, they are only sometimes given help by Zhukov. The Germans attack again and the defens…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 518-Stalin's Latest Mistake
The attack against northern Stalingrad fairs well, still the defenders on holding on. But Stalin is unsatisfied, he wants counter attacks. It will wa…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 517-The Black Hole That Is Stalingrad
As Gen. Paulus’ second major attack on Stalingrad gets underway, he’s even more impatient as he had been offered a promotion. But first, he must take…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 516-Holding Stalingrad by the Skin of their Teeth
Now that German forces are inside Stalingrad, the fighting centers around the Main Ferry Terminal, the Grain Elevator and the heights of Mamayev Kurg…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 515-Rat Warfare in Stalingrad
Axis forces enter Stalingrad. But the Germans, unused to urban warfare, adapt as best they can. Whereas the new local commander of the defenders, Vas…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 514-Zhukov Arrives at Stalingrad
Though Army Group B approaches Stalingrad, all does not go according to plan. Thus Gen. Paulus calls on Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen and his …
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 513-Stalingrad or Bust
Dividing Army Group South, both the Baku Oil Fields and Stalingrad are to be captured. Berlin believes this will weaken Soviet Russia’s war effort. B…
1 year, 3 months ago
Operation Arthropoid
First, a summary of Stalin’s late winter, early spring 1942 counter attacks, along the entire Eastern Front. They mostly fail and cost hundreds of th…
1 year, 3 months ago
FDR's Fireside Chats
As President Roosevelt knew his New Deal policies would be unpopular with the business owners, he sought to explain himself directly to the people. T…
1 year, 3 months ago