{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The hell of Stalingrad: Beyond Barbarossa episode 36","description":"In the autumn of 1942, the German 6th Army with Romanian, Hungarian and Italian armies in support, ground into Stalingrad—a hell of their own making.\n\nMap: Stalingrad city layout\n\n\n\nPhotos\n\n\n\nRed Army soldier prepare to defend Stalingrad suburb\n\n\n\nStalingrad on fire after bombing, 2 October 1942\n\nThe Red October Factory's ruins became hiding places for Red Army defenders\n\n\n\nLoading a Katyusha rocket launcher\n\nKatyusha from military museum\n\nGeneral Friedrich Paulus\n\nSecond from left, Gen. Vasily Chuikov in his headquarters in Stalingrad, 1942.\n\nSources\n\nAntony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998.\n\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.\n\nWilliam Craig, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Old Saybrook, CT, USA: Konecky & Konecky, 1973.\n\nAnthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017\n\nSound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/) .\n\n Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762529/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}