Small Scale Military Headquarters

This is probably of little interest to most of you guys, but I know there are at least a few relatively serious history buffs around here, so I tought I would post this..... The first book in the long awaited and much anticipated "Stalingrad Trilogy" by Col. David Glantz has been released: "To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942" is now available from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Stalingrad- ... 664&sr=1-1 and perhaps elsewhere as well. I highly recommend this for anyone with a more than casual interest in the Soviet-German conflict, and the Stalingrad period in particular. Col. Glantz is a former chief of the US Army's Center of Military History and is widely recognized as the foremost Western author and authority on the Russo-German war, his unprecedented access to Soviet & Russian archives has made him head and shoulders above most others on the topic, and this newest offering promises to be one of his best and most comprehensive efforts to date.

Thanks for posting this ostketten, i ordered a copy.

Got this book last week, so far its really good.

Got this book last week, so far its really good.

In typical Glantz fashion, it is exhaustive and extraordinarily detailed with the appendixes and notes totaling some 100 pages just by themselves.
At 600+ pages it's not light reading by any stretch, but if I could choose only one book on the German advance on the city, this would be it. My biggest complaint about "To the Gates of Stalingrad" is the rather small physical format & print size of the book, the maps in particular are quite tiny, but it's a minor annoyance and I'm looking forward to getting the remaining two volumes of the trilogy once they become available.

Sounds like a good, graduate-level academic historical work...

My cup of tea