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Bloody Stalingrad #1-3
Bloody Stalingrad: The Trilogy
November 1942: The Eastern Front
The trilogy of three books set in the final months of the most vicious battle in history.
Leutnant Hausser, a young experienced German infantry officer with the 76th Infantry Division is assigned with a handful of men to the south of Stalingrad. As the fighting heightens in the city, the officer and his men bolster the defences of their allies, the Romanians, on a relatively quiet part of the front.
As the Germans strip their flanks and move units into the city in a desperate attempt to clinch victory, the Russian Red Army prepares a massive offensive designed to trap their enemy in Stalingrad.
As the Russian offensive is launched, smashing through the flanks to the north and south of the freezing city, small units of survivors desperately try and escape the Russian onslaught. Not many will make it.
The battle for the city will continue in the bitterest conditions, the trapped Axis forces struggling against cold, hunger and a vengeful enemy, hell-bent on their destruction.
The German air force, the Luftwaffe, attempt to supply the city from the air. Failing to consider the distance, miserable conditions and roaming Russian fighters and anti-aircraft fire.
Erich Von Manstein, the German Field Marshall is ordered to break through to the frozen city on the banks of the Volga River, the relief effort (Operation Winter Storm) struggling against Russian forces deployed between them and their goal.
Leutnant Hausser and his small squad continue their battle for survival, the rations and ammunition cut, the weather unbearably miserable, their enemy becoming increasingly more powerful and a hunger gnawing at their stomachs.
Russian food kitchens are moved near the front lines, ensuring their starving enemy can smell the hot meals provided for their soldiers. The Germans and their allies are down to 1000 calories a day, the city rationing providing limited bread, soup and horse flesh.
Loudspeakers deployed across the front sound a clock ticking, a voice announcing that ‘Every seven seconds a German soldier dies in Russia.’ The loudspeakers play twenty four hours a day.
Having spent thirty years studying World War 2 and in particular, the Russian Front, these offerings are based on historical fact. The characters are fictitious, attempting to portray a realistic account of what the battle would have been like for individual soldiers.
All units and actions are in accordance with actual events, including propaganda, deployment and individual division engagements. Snipers, aircraft, artillery and tank actions are all included.
Bloody Stalingrad is the trilogy of Bloody Iced Bullet, Bloody Rattenkrieg and Bloody Kessel.
The author aims to provide a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience at an affordable price for the reader.
Imagination is personal, free and to be cherished.
The trilogy of three books set in the final months of the most vicious battle in history.
Leutnant Hausser, a young experienced German infantry officer with the 76th Infantry Division is assigned with a handful of men to the south of Stalingrad. As the fighting heightens in the city, the officer and his men bolster the defences of their allies, the Romanians, on a relatively quiet part of the front.
As the Germans strip their flanks and move units into the city in a desperate attempt to clinch victory, the Russian Red Army prepares a massive offensive designed to trap their enemy in Stalingrad.
As the Russian offensive is launched, smashing through the flanks to the north and south of the freezing city, small units of survivors desperately try and escape the Russian onslaught. Not many will make it.
The battle for the city will continue in the bitterest conditions, the trapped Axis forces struggling against cold, hunger and a vengeful enemy, hell-bent on their destruction.
The German air force, the Luftwaffe, attempt to supply the city from the air. Failing to consider the distance, miserable conditions and roaming Russian fighters and anti-aircraft fire.
Erich Von Manstein, the German Field Marshall is ordered to break through to the frozen city on the banks of the Volga River, the relief effort (Operation Winter Storm) struggling against Russian forces deployed between them and their goal.
Leutnant Hausser and his small squad continue their battle for survival, the rations and ammunition cut, the weather unbearably miserable, their enemy becoming increasingly more powerful and a hunger gnawing at their stomachs.
Russian food kitchens are moved near the front lines, ensuring their starving enemy can smell the hot meals provided for their soldiers. The Germans and their allies are down to 1000 calories a day, the city rationing providing limited bread, soup and horse flesh.
Loudspeakers deployed across the front sound a clock ticking, a voice announcing that ‘Every seven seconds a German soldier dies in Russia.’ The loudspeakers play twenty four hours a day.
Having spent thirty years studying World War 2 and in particular, the Russian Front, these offerings are based on historical fact. The characters are fictitious, attempting to portray a realistic account of what the battle would have been like for individual soldiers.
All units and actions are in accordance with actual events, including propaganda, deployment and individual division engagements. Snipers, aircraft, artillery and tank actions are all included.
Bloody Stalingrad is the trilogy of Bloody Iced Bullet, Bloody Rattenkrieg and Bloody Kessel.
The author aims to provide a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience at an affordable price for the reader.
Imagination is personal, free and to be cherished.
770 pages, ebook
First published August 17, 2015
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About the author
Andrew McGregor
38 books8 followersLooking back, my interest in writing and reading have always been significant in my life. It's sometimes difficult to comprehend just how much enjoyment you achieve from something that you continually perform, both in your professional and private life.
As a boy, I used to write reports of the local football matches in my home town in northern Scotland. My favourite stories to write at the time were adventure and war and how the human condition adapts to the pressures of fate and unpredictability.
Fascinated by history, I used to consume books at a frantic rate, reading personal accounts and historical works across all ages. I became frustrated when reading articles that would compromise fact for common belief.
This reading and writing continued through my teens and into my twenties when I attempted to publish one work on the Russian Front. This was rejected due to the format of the offering, and I seemed to lose momentum at that point with a business and career pushing what I believed to be a childhood dream into the background.
My parents had always encouraged me in whatever I did, and this continued, with my father occasionally enquiring if I had written anything. I had continued to devise potential ideas for books, stories, twists of fate, etc. All this whilst carrying on with everyday life, sitting at traffic lights, awaking from a dream, waiting in a bar, etc. I had written a number of outlines for plots and jotted ideas down, all saved for a future that I perhaps never imagined would come to fruition.
Last year, my father unfortunately passed away and it was on the train to assist in the arrangements for the funeral that the laptop was opened and a realisation that I had supressed an ambition for far too long drifted across my thoughts. All the plots and stories poured back, the silly twists that life throws at us, comical endings to situations and the 'itch I could never scratch', understanding fate's choices and the luck in life. I determined at that point, on a train somewhere south of Paris, that I would finally achieve what I had always dreamed of and write. At the end of the journey, the train pulling into Bezier...I had completed the first chapter.
To be honest I never contemplated anyone would want to read what I had written, but believed simply to accomplish the stories I had devised and dreamed about.
I really hope the style is appealing or the stories as well explained as they are in my mind, the colour, the temperature, the smells and senses, the determination to portray realism or believability will always motivate me. These thoughts and considerations remain the possession of the person generous enough to read the offerings, and perhaps that is only right.
Every time I press 'publish', the rush of a variety of emotions are practically intoxicating, the fear and apprehension will drive me to read what I have created again (even though it is now 'out there') and then sit back and ask myself, 'could that be any better?' There in perhaps lies the enjoyment, the vulberability mixed with a sense of achievement.
The motivation for me lies with the imagination...what will the reader see, how will they see it? Has it been explained in enough detail or have I provided too much, thus robbing the reader of their own unconscious creativity?
I now write every day, thoroughly enjoying it. The contemplation, considering the characters, how they develop. what they see and do, what could happen next, etc is extremely addictive.
I hope the person generous enough to read what is written finds it just as enjoyable.
Living in West London, I have had a wide variety of jobs through the police, ambulance service, working for a billionaire and at a major airport, I believe my lifelong fascination with fate and human nature is now only just beginning.
Thank you for the motivation and encouragement to continue, its a fabulous gift.
As a boy, I used to write reports of the local football matches in my home town in northern Scotland. My favourite stories to write at the time were adventure and war and how the human condition adapts to the pressures of fate and unpredictability.
Fascinated by history, I used to consume books at a frantic rate, reading personal accounts and historical works across all ages. I became frustrated when reading articles that would compromise fact for common belief.
This reading and writing continued through my teens and into my twenties when I attempted to publish one work on the Russian Front. This was rejected due to the format of the offering, and I seemed to lose momentum at that point with a business and career pushing what I believed to be a childhood dream into the background.
My parents had always encouraged me in whatever I did, and this continued, with my father occasionally enquiring if I had written anything. I had continued to devise potential ideas for books, stories, twists of fate, etc. All this whilst carrying on with everyday life, sitting at traffic lights, awaking from a dream, waiting in a bar, etc. I had written a number of outlines for plots and jotted ideas down, all saved for a future that I perhaps never imagined would come to fruition.
Last year, my father unfortunately passed away and it was on the train to assist in the arrangements for the funeral that the laptop was opened and a realisation that I had supressed an ambition for far too long drifted across my thoughts. All the plots and stories poured back, the silly twists that life throws at us, comical endings to situations and the 'itch I could never scratch', understanding fate's choices and the luck in life. I determined at that point, on a train somewhere south of Paris, that I would finally achieve what I had always dreamed of and write. At the end of the journey, the train pulling into Bezier...I had completed the first chapter.
To be honest I never contemplated anyone would want to read what I had written, but believed simply to accomplish the stories I had devised and dreamed about.
I really hope the style is appealing or the stories as well explained as they are in my mind, the colour, the temperature, the smells and senses, the determination to portray realism or believability will always motivate me. These thoughts and considerations remain the possession of the person generous enough to read the offerings, and perhaps that is only right.
Every time I press 'publish', the rush of a variety of emotions are practically intoxicating, the fear and apprehension will drive me to read what I have created again (even though it is now 'out there') and then sit back and ask myself, 'could that be any better?' There in perhaps lies the enjoyment, the vulberability mixed with a sense of achievement.
The motivation for me lies with the imagination...what will the reader see, how will they see it? Has it been explained in enough detail or have I provided too much, thus robbing the reader of their own unconscious creativity?
I now write every day, thoroughly enjoying it. The contemplation, considering the characters, how they develop. what they see and do, what could happen next, etc is extremely addictive.
I hope the person generous enough to read what is written finds it just as enjoyable.
Living in West London, I have had a wide variety of jobs through the police, ambulance service, working for a billionaire and at a major airport, I believe my lifelong fascination with fate and human nature is now only just beginning.
Thank you for the motivation and encouragement to continue, its a fabulous gift.
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September 8, 2021
This book combines the trilogy of Mr. McGregor’s Wehrmacht Series, Bloody Iced Bullet, Bloody Rattenkrieg and Bloody Kessel into one volume. These three World War II books of fiction follow a small unit of Axis soldiers as they experience first, the Russian envelopment of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, then the German attempt to relieve the 6th Army and finally the last destructive days of the 6th Army that leads to their capitulation to the Russians. So, it covers the period of late November 1942 to early February of 1943. The small unit of Axis soldiers is led by Leutnant Hausser. It is primarily a story of survival in brutally cold weather as well as deadly battle without any quarter granted or expected. While most of the story focuses on just surviving the weather conditions and low rations, the battle scenes are very vividly described. The author’s extensive knowledge of the weapons and tactics on both sides is in evidence throughout the trilogy. This small unit is thrown together from the remnants of their various units when the Russians overrun them in the initial assaults that surrounded the 6th Army in Stalingrad. These men are initially behind enemy lines and they ban together, Germans, Romanians, Croatians, Italians and one former Russian soldier who now allies himself with Leutnant Hausser in a fight for survival. This unit makes its way back into Stalingrad believing they are now safely within the Axis lines, only to discovered they are cut-off with the rest of the 6th Army and surrounded by the Russians. This unit is portrayed as primarily loyal to Leutnant Hausser not to any Axis ideology. And Leutnant Hausser is also very loyal to his men. He is also portrayed as having morals that were not easy to find in the German Army in the harsh and difficult conditions in Russia. It is in brutally cold conditions that these soldiers must live and fight in. The bleak, grey weather environment is a match for the men’s mental condition. Minimal hope in a rescue along with meager food rations and equipment to fight off the Russians would and did depress most men. As you should expect in this situation, not all of Leutnant Hausser’s men survive the ordeal. Some do and their final escape from Stalingrad prior to the final surrender leads to the author’s sequel in the Wehrmacht series, titled Bloody Kharkov.
December 24, 2015
Excellent fictional account of combat on the Eastern Front
Gritty and determined. An excellent story of a squad of German and allied soldiers fighting j n Stalingrad. Not much fiction is written about this brutal and tragic episode of the war. McGregor does a wonderful job of introducing the historic context and presenting these intriguing characters. I look forward to reading more about this squad.
Gritty and determined. An excellent story of a squad of German and allied soldiers fighting j n Stalingrad. Not much fiction is written about this brutal and tragic episode of the war. McGregor does a wonderful job of introducing the historic context and presenting these intriguing characters. I look forward to reading more about this squad.
October 15, 2015
Fantastic writing
This is the third book I have read about this battle and it is as good as the other two. The others being the more celebrated of them. One having been made into a movie. This book is a much more graphic depiction of the appalling conditions Hitler made his army suffer. Plus this book wasn't centered on any snipers.
This is the third book I have read about this battle and it is as good as the other two. The others being the more celebrated of them. One having been made into a movie. This book is a much more graphic depiction of the appalling conditions Hitler made his army suffer. Plus this book wasn't centered on any snipers.
March 4, 2017
Highly recommended. The author has done his research, and his details are spot-on. He really brings the struggle of the soldier to life. It does drag on here and there, and he takes too long dwelling on certain scenes, but overall an excellent piece of literature.
July 9, 2018
Outstanding
An excellent historical novel that does not hold back any of the horror of war. A well written, gritty, realistic novel of the horrific conditions of the battle of Stalingrad from the German point of view.
An excellent historical novel that does not hold back any of the horror of war. A well written, gritty, realistic novel of the horrific conditions of the battle of Stalingrad from the German point of view.
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