Prologue: Along the Sukhaia Vereika River, 23 July 1942
Preliminaries, April-June 1942
Punch and counterpunch, Blau I, 28 June-12 July 1942
The German advance into the Great Bend of the Don, 23-31 July 1942
Endgame in the Great Bend of the Don, 1-19 August 1942
The German advance to the Volga River, 20 August-2 September 1942
The struggle on the flanks, 25 July-11 September 1942
Conclusions: German strategic misconceptions.
