Скачать или смотреть The City of Iron: When German Blitzkrieg Met Soviet Determination

In September 1942, the German Sixth Army—battle-hardened veterans who had conquered Poland, France, and driven deep into the Soviet Union—entered the industrial city of Stalingrad expecting another swift victory. They had been told the city would fall within days. What they encountered instead was a new kind of warfare for which their training, tactics, and entire military philosophy had left them utterly unprepared.
This is the story of how confident conquerors became traumatized survivors, ground down in brutal street-by-street combat where every destroyed building became a fortress and every pile of rubble concealed death. It chronicles the systematic destruction of German tactical doctrine by Soviet defenders who turned the city itself into a weapon, fighting with a determination that shocked soldiers who had known nothing but victory.
Through the voices of the men who fought there—from Lieutenant Hans Werner's diary entries to the accounts of soldiers who watched their army starve and freeze—this narrative explores the collision between German Blitzkrieg warfare and Soviet urban defense. It reveals how the myth of Wehrmacht invincibility was shattered not in a single climactic battle, but through months of grinding combat where material advantages meant nothing against an enemy that refused to quit.