"Not a Step Back!" - this merciless order became the leitmotif of the Battle of Stalingrad. "There is no land for us beyond the Volga!" - With this oath, the Red Army withstood the blows of the Wehrmacht, turning the tide of the Great Patriotic War. "Dying, but not giving up!" - the soldiers wrote on the walls of the destroyed burnt-out houses, turned into impregnable fortresses. Infantrymen and paratroopers, sappers and anti-aircraft gunners, armor-piercers who knocked out German tanks at the cost of their own lives, and tankers who burned many times in the wrecked "thirty-four" - this book contains the memoirs of front-line soldiers who survived in the Stalingrad meat grinder to tell the "trench truth" about the decisive battle of World War II.