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Antony Beevor
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THE CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
RECOUNTING THE EPIC TURNING POINT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction,
the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize
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 and the nature of war itself, which changed how history is written, Stalingrad is a testament to the vital role of the Soviet war effort.
'Superb...read Beevor first as a compelling tale of human retribution'
Max Hastings, Evening Standard
'Magnificent'
John Keegan, Daily Telegraph
'A classic'
Amanda Foreman, Independent
'As good a piece of war history as I have ever read'
Jeremy Paxman, Sunday Telegraph
About the Author
Educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, Antony Beevor served in the British Army for 5 years, he then lived and worked in Paris for two years where he wrote his first novel.
His works of non-fiction have included PARIS AFTER THE LIBERATION (Penguin), THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR and CRETE - THE BATTLE AND THE RESISTANCE (Penguin).
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Product details
- ASIN : B002UZDTG0
- Publisher : Penguin Books; 1st edition (1 May 1999)
- Language : English
- File size : 7534 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 564 pages
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I could not go on, kept hoping for action, so skipped forwards by chapter, but no, it was all the same.
This is for most studious students of the intricate details of the German effort to take Stalingrad, perhaps old men who like to play war games on table layouts of little battalions of soldiers.
But - a terrific amount of research has gone into it by the writer, must have taken years and years looking at old documents and interviewing like minded people who contributed to such mind numbing details. Sorry writer, this is for a small number of obsessional war games old male historians.


A real eye opener and brilliantly told by Anthony Beevor

The detailed accounts from both sides is gut wrenching from the perspective of the common soldier, the complete contempt for life is brought out for all readers to see.
If you weren't' aware of Hitler's downfall you will be after this, compelling reading throughout.
