The Great Patriotic War: Russia halts the German advance - Operation Uranus and Operation Citadel

Operation Uranus - September 1942

• This was the Soviet counter-offensive
• The defence of Stalingrad alone cost 1.1 million Red Army lives, and 800,000 German troops were killed during the conflict
• By February 1943, the Germans had been driven from Stalingrad
• By December 1943, two-thirds of…