Stalingrad

Antony Beevor

Penguin Books Limited, Oct 4, 2007 - History - 493 pages

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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User Review  - jigarpatel - LibraryThing

To a layman like myself, Beevor gives a detailed and seemingly well researched account of the fateful siege of Stalingrad, including refreshing admission of statistical uncertainties. It just feels ...

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Excellent, detailed account of Stalingrad. While Beevor can be critical of the German Sixth Army commander Friedrich von Paulus, he also points that that he lacked vital information of what was ...

About the author

Antony Beevor is the author of Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), Berlin: The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), The Second World War, Ardennes 1944 (Prix Médicis shortlist) and Arnhem. The number one bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold over eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Stalingrad
• Author: Antony Beevor
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Books Limited, 2007
• ISBN: 0141032405, 9780141032405
• Length: 493 pages
• Subjects: History / Military / General; History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General; Technology & Engineering / Military Science