This book is dedicated to the two most significant events of World War II for every Russian: the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress and the final phase in the battle for Stalingrad - Operation Ring. And if in the first case, despite the desperate resistance and unprecedented heroism of our soldiers, the Red Army was defeated, then in the Battle of Stalingrad it was the German invaders who had to pay for aggression and robbery on the territory of our Motherland - the German military genius was disgraced and humiliated, 6th the Wehrmacht field army ceased to exist, and Field Marshal Paulus surrendered for the first time in German history.