The book by the famous Soviet historian Professor N.N. Yakovlev is dedicated to one of the glorious dates of the Great Patriotic War — the defeat of the German fascists at Stalingrad. The work was written with the involvement of a large number of archival documents from the Great Patriotic War, memoirs of major military leaders, participants in the events of those days, as well as documents unknown to the general reader. Special attention is paid to the criticism of Western researchers who seek to belittle the role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of German fascism.