Full name: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943

Author: Antony Beevor Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners, War/Military Cultures: Russia, Germany Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140284584 0140284583

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has interviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable. Similar books: Enemy at the Gates by William Craig The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor The Second World War by Antony Beevor Ivan's War by Catherine Merridale A Short History of World War II by James L. Stokesbury All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds Barbarossa by Alan Clark The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts Russia's War by Richard Overy Armageddon by Max Hastings The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson History of the Second World War by B. H. Liddell Hart The Second World Wars by Victor Davis Hanson A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman D-Day by Antony Beevor Ardennes 1944 by Antony Beevor The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor Crete by Antony Beevor Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie