Germany drives toward the Volga, aiming to seize oil, industry, and a blow to Soviet resistance.

Urban warfare erupts as both sides fight block by block amid rubble, leveraging close quarters, snipers, and fortifications.

Soviets strike with Operation Uranus, sealing the Sixth Army in a widening pocket and severing supply lines.

Relief efforts fail, winter bites, and Axis defenses crumble under relentless pressure and dwindling supplies.

The pocket fractures as surrender becomes inevitable; German forces capitulate, marking a strategic collapse.