Rattenkrieg: the fight for the ruins
1942 · Event
'The war of the rats': two months of fighting measured in floors of buildings — the grain elevator, the Tractor Factory, Pavlov's House held by a platoon for 58 days, snipers ruling the spaces between. Chuikov's army clings to strips of riverbank yards deep, bleeding the Sixth Army white while the reserves mass on the flanks.
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