Stalingrad and the German retreat

I think I will start to post more frequently,because my facebook and myspace are became too boring,no friend request,no comment,no messages and everything..OK,yesterday I have posted the Operation Barbarossa and today I will introduced the fact of the German retreat during Barbarossa.In the early part of the Nazi invasion of Soviet Union,the Germans seem to accomplish the objective,but on the summer 1942 to February 1943,the Soviet Red Army unleashed their great counter-offensive which strokes the Germans..

1.Stalingrad was a large industrial city,it stretched for 30 miles along the banks of Volga..

2.The Panzer 4th Army diverted to help Kleist attack on Rostov and it was directed towards Stalingrad a fortnight later..

3.Gen Friedrich Paulus,the commander of 6th Army with 330000 troops advance eastward and countered the 62nd Soviet Rifle Division under the command of Gen Vasily Chuikov which encouraged his men to made a determined stands..

4.The Soviets had to supply their troops by boat and barge across the Volga from the other bank.Meanwhile,the German was reinforced by their reserves from their flank cover mainly from the Romanian and Italian divisions..

5.On 19th-20th November 1942,2 Soviets spearhead under the command of Gen Nikolai Nikolayevich,Gen A.M Vasilevsky and Marshal Geory Zhukov made a huge counter-offensive from north and south of the German salient whose tip at Stalingrad.By 26th November 1942,after penetrated deep into the German flanks,the two prongs attack had linked up about 70 miles west of Stalingrad,the encirclement of the remaining 250000 German 6th and 4th Army was completed..

6.Hitler ordered Paulus to "Stand And Fight",the order however doomed the depressed German army..

7.By Mid-December,Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein form a special army to rescue Paulus's forces inside Stalingrad but it was failed due to the fatal order by Hitler..

8.On 31st January 1943,Paulus surrendered with 91000 frozen and starving man and also 24 general with him..

9.Even west of Rostov,January 1942,2 Soviets army under Gen Nikolai Vatutin and the other one was under Gen Filip Golikov have crossed Don River and thrusting to the Donets between Kamensk and Kharkhov..

10.Golikov took Lozoyava on 11th February 1942 and Kharkov 5 days later..

11.Kursk retaken by 3rd Soviet Army under Gen Ivan Chernyakhovsky on February 8th 1943.The Germans had retreat from all of their territory that they had taken in their great invasion on the early part of the campaign.The Caucasus returned to Soviets hand..