Stalingrad… The very word has entered all languages long ago, becoming a household name and a symbol of endurance and valor. In Alexei Isaev’s book, this battle is presented in all its grand scale—here the author describes in detail not only the fighting within the city, but also the autumn counterblows of the Stalingrad Front. It was then, north of Stalingrad, that a punishing positional battle unfolded, involving several times more troops than on the city streets, hundreds of aircraft and tanks. The author convincingly proves that under conditions of unstable defense, Soviet tank corps were the most perfect means of fighting—time and again saving the Stalingrad Front from defeat and finally snatching victory from the enemy in this greatest battle of the Great Patriotic War.