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.  Map: Stalingrad city layout   Photos   Red Army soldier prepare to defend Stalingrad suburb   Stalingrad on fire after bombing, 2 October 1942  The Red October Factory's ruins became hiding places for Red Army defenders    Loading a Katyusha rocket launcher Katyusha from military museum General Friedrich Paulus  Second from left, Gen. Vasily Chuikov in his headquarters in Stalingrad, 1942. Sources Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. William Craig, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Old Saybrook, CT, USA: Konecky & Konecky, 1973. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Sound effects by Zapsplat.