The Battle of Stalingrad 1942–43 | Line of Fire | Full Documentary скачать в хорошем качестве

The Battle of Stalingrad 1942–43 | Line of Fire | Full Documentary

The struggle for Stalingrad was the decisive battle of the war on the Eastern Front and a pivotal moment of World War Two, for it signaled to the Allies that Hitler and The Reich could be beaten. Stalingrad was a strategically vital city controlling the rail and waterway communications of southern Russia; Hitler planned to seize the city with a pincer assault by the 6th Army from the northwest and the 4th Army from the southwest. Ferocious Russian defence kept the two armies apart; the city had been reduced to heaps of rubble by the German bombardment - which actually aided the besieged Russians - and the German Army never effectively secured the city. When the German surrender finally came, almost 100,000 troops laid down their arms. More than 200,000 had already been lost in the fighting. Line Of Fire Series: New perspectives on history’s great battles About The Series Even at this great distance, the stories behind the battles that shaped the history of the world continue to captivate people everywhere. It is not difficult to see why. The sheer scale of the fighting on military history’s great battlefields boggles the imagination and tales of courage on those same bloody fields make the heart beat a little faster. To think of the fate of nations being decided by a single stroke of military genius or by sheer ineptitude or by the vagaries of fortune tingles the spine…to imagine ourselves faced with the same dangers as those confronted by soldiers throughout the years makes the blood run cold. All of these things go some way to explaining why military history holds such an enduring place in the popular imagination – and the time has come to tell the stories of these great episodes from the past in a completely new way. Licensed Through Mercury Studios #warDocumentaries #Fulldocumentary ► Subscribe to get all the latest content https://bit.ly/3p4PcTX ► Connect with us online and our socials: Website: www.4digitalmedia.com Facebook:   / thewarchannel   Twitter:   / thewarchanneltv   #thewarchannel