Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 1999.
This has really become the ‘go to’ book if you want to know the events that occurred in October 1942 for the battle of Stalingrad. Shocking, stunning and compelling this book shows the true horrors and costs of war as well as the bravery of soldiers. Their strength and courage should not be forgotten and this book is essential reading.
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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.
Stalingrad is the first book in the acclaimed World War II trilogy by Antony Beevor. The second book in the trilogy is Berlin and the last, Paris after the Liberation.
Stalingrad features in the following genres: History, eBooks of the Month, History and Archaeology, Recommendations
Stalingrad is available in Paperback, Ebook
Stalingrad was written by Antony Beevor and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Stalingrad has 493 pages
£11.69
