Operation Uranus: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 38

The Soviet high command's strategy to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad took the invaders by surprise. 

Map 1: The German flanks

 

Map 2: Operation Uranus in action

 

Red Army soldiers in winter camouflage charge across the steppe

 

The T-34 in action in Uranus 

 

Northern and southern pincers meet 

 

Red Army commanders from the 5th Tank Army and the 4th Mechanized Corps meet on the steppe near Kalach, 23 November 1942. The end of the beginning.