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The chapter will analyse what the Germans and Soviets hoped to achieve at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. It will emphasise that the Germans found themselves in a truly distinctive fighting environment, one to which they struggled, despite brilliant martial skills, to adapt. It will stress that the Red Army was not a passive cast member in a German drama played out on a Russian stage, but a ruthlessly innovative opponent prepared to engage in a terrible struggle to the death in a unique fighting environment that gave it a better chance of success. In short, the Red Army at Stalingrad proved itself a more formidable opponent than the German Army had so far encountered during World War II.
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Walsh, S. (2020). The Battle of Stalingrad, September–November 1942. In: Fremont-Barnes, G. (eds) A History of Modern Urban Operations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27088-9_3
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