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Stalingrad

Stalingrad

by Antony Beevor

4.25 out of 5 (16 ratings)

Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
512 
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd 
Publication Date:
04 October 2007 
Category:
General & World History 
ISBN:
9780141032405 

Description

Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad" is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments. 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. "A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative techniques of a novelist...This is a book that lets the reader look into the face of battle". (Orlando Figes, "Sunday Telegraph"). "A brilliantly researched tour de force of military history". (Sarah Bradford, "The Times"). Antony Beevor is the renowned author of "Stalingrad", which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.

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  • An evocative page-turner about a momentous moment in WW 2 history. The people, more than the divisions and weaponry, is what you notice the most.

    5.00 out of 5

    carlosemferreira

  • This was a fantastic, comprehensive account of the battle of Stalingrad and I barely put it down once I had opened it. This was the best of the 3 Beevor books I have read by far ('fall of berlin' and 'battle for spain' being the other 2).

    5.00 out of 5

    apelph

  • Beevor documents very accurately a titanic struggle between two unforgiving dictators. This is an exhausting but thrilling read.. Beevor is the very best in describing the turning point in WW II. The book is a classic.

    5.00 out of 5

    phillund

  • 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.

    5.00 out of 5

    CharlesMcCain

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