In October 1942,a panzer officer wrote:
'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'.
The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome,vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle,with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building,was brutally destructive to both armies.
But the eventual victory of the Red Army,and the failure of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa,was the first defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe,and the start of his decline.
An extraordinary story of tactical genius,civilian bravery,obsession,carnage and the nature of war itself,Stalingrad will act as a testament to the vital role of the soviet war effort.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141032405Number of pages: 544Weight: 396 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 33 mm
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Antony Beevor
The bestselling historian of our times,Antony Beevor made his name with the books Stalingrad and Berlin which recount Soviet-German conflict during WWII,making judicious use of previously un-seen Soviet archive material. Known for his vivid narrative accounts of Twentieth-Century military conflicts,his primary interest is in revisiting and re-evaluating the Second World War; recent volumes including D-Day and a history of the war from an Eastern perspective,The Second World War.
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