Format:
xxv, 512 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
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illustrations, maps, portraits
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20 cm
ISBN:
9780141032405
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0141032405
Content:
The Double-Edged Sword of Barbarossa -- 'Nothing is Impossible for the German Soldier!' -- 'Smash in the Door and the Whole Rotten Structure Will Come Crashing Down!' -- Hitler's Hubris: The Delayed Battle for Moscow -- General Paulus's First Battle -- 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?' -- 'Not One Step Backwards' -- 'The Volga is Reached!' -- 'Time is Blood': The September Battles -- Rattenkrieg -- Traitors and Allies -- Fortresses of Rubble and Iron -- Paulus's Final Assault -- 'All For the Front!' -- Operation Uranus -- Hitler's Obsession -- 'The Fortress Without a Roof' -- 'Der Manstein Kommt!' -- Christmas in the German Way -- The Air-Bridge -- 'Surrender Out of the Question' -- 'A German Field Marshal Does Not Commit Suicide with a Pair of Nail Scissors!' -- 'Stop Dancing! Stalingrad Has Fallen' -- The City of the Dead -- The Sword of Stalingrad.
Content:
"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."--Amazon.com
Note:
Originally published: London: Viking, 1998
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First published in Penguin Books 1999; reissued with a new preface in Penguin Books 2011; reissued in this edition 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-485) and index
Language:
English
Author information:
Beevor, Antony 1946-
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