PRELUDE TO STALINGRAD: The Red Army's Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus in World War II

Reconstructs the fighting in the northern sector of the Case Blue offensive in the summer of 1942, near the city of Voronezh. Using German documents as well as previously classified Soviet sources, Sdvizhkov zooms in on the nine days of seesaw fighting that threatened to derail the German offensive north of Stalingrad. Photos.