The Road to Stalingrad ; Stalin's War With Germany; Volume One

New Have: Yale University Press, 1999. Small quarto in black ills wraps; 394p, illustrations, maps; 24 cm, notes, index. Fine with extremely faint signs of shelf-wear to edges. As new. . Paperback. ISBN: 0300078129

Contents: Preface -- Introduction, on war games, Soviet and German -- Book I, On preparedness: military and political developments, Spring 1941 -- The Soviet military establishment: reforms and repairs (1940-1) -- 'Don't panic. The "Boss" knows all about it' -- Book II, Halting the Blitzkrieg: 22 June 1941-19 November 1942 -- The Sunday blow: 22 June 1941 -- The disaster on the frontiers: June-July 1941 -- Towards the edge of destruction -- The rear, the deep rear and behind the German lines -- The Moscow counter-stroke: November-December 1941 -- Stalin's first strategic offensive: January-March 1942 -- High Summer and the road to Stalingrad -- Transformation at Stalingrad: Operation Uranus (October-November 1942) -- Sources and references -- Index.