Stalingrad

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• Always Time to Kill

  The most arresting detail in Antony Beevor’s anecdotal history of the great Soviet victory at Stalingrad is a propaganda photograph taken in 1942 of a dozen or so German soldiers marching three abreast, heading east, squinting into the July sun. On t ... (read full critics)

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• The Battle of Stalingrad is the turning point of WWII. The entire 6th Army of Nazi Germany was lost in this long, drawn-out battle which is one of the most un-humanizing of all time. The German army was stuck and surrounded in the brutal winter of Russia and many were left starved to death, some r ... (continue)

  The Battle of Stalingrad is the turning point of WWII. The entire 6th Army of Nazi Germany was lost in this long, drawn-out battle which is one of the most un-humanizing of all time. The German army was stuck and surrounded in the brutal winter of Russia and many were left starved to death, some reports of cannibalism was reported but cannot be confirmed. In the end, what Hitler thought was a walk in the park (Blitzkrieg) turned out to be "Rattenkrieg" - Rat Warfare for the Germans.
  After the battle, Nazi Germany sped up into the down spiral of decline and defeat, even common Germans were convinced that the entire war was lost.

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  Savio Tang said on Feb 8, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I’ve read almost every book on Stalingrad. This is one of the best but more important, it’s the most up-to-date. When the USSR collapsed and historians were able to get into their wartime archives, lots of information was found that we never knew. The author benefited from that. Besides his researc ... (continue)

  
  I’ve read almost every book on Stalingrad. This is one of the best but more important, it’s the most up-to-date. When the USSR collapsed and historians were able to get into their wartime archives, lots of information was found that we never knew. The author benefited from that. Besides his research, which is excellent, I think I found one mistake, he is a very skillfull writer. Don’t start reading this at night or you’ll stay up.

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  Charles McCain said on Sep 28, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Impressive unfolding of the pivotal battle for Stalingrad. I was struck by the enormous scale of the slaughter and the conceit of the politicians who necessitated

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  Mearso said on Feb 9, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  A fantastic account of the fate that met the German Sixth Army and ultimately Hitler's ambitions in Russia. Hundreds of miles from home, cut-off, surrounded, starving, desperately short of equipment and supplies, and fighting to death in the largest battle in human history, it's a vision of hell on ... (continue)

  A fantastic account of the fate that met the German Sixth Army and ultimately Hitler's ambitions in Russia. Hundreds of miles from home, cut-off, surrounded, starving, desperately short of equipment and supplies, and fighting to death in the largest battle in human history, it's a vision of hell on earth.

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  Dave said on Sep 23, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• Synopsis
  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 easter ... (continue)

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  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.

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  wgeddert said on Aug 11, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• eBook 512 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0141926104
• ISBN-13: 9780141926100
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Oct 04, 2007
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD and Audio Cassette
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Nederlandse Boeken, Polskie Książki, Svenska böcker

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