The successful expulsion of the German troops from Moscow in the winter of 1941 came at a cost for the Red Army. Under Adolf Hitler's close supervision, the Wehrmacht planned offensives along the Eastern Front to push the Russians further back into their own territory. With new tactics and the crucial aid of the Luftwaffe, the German army began to formulate a two-pronged attack on Stalingrad, but as Yves Buffetaut recounts in this illustrated history, the ensuing siege would prove to be Germany's undoing.