Antony Beevor Additional Author mixed material bibliography Penguin 1998

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493 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 caught their Nazi enemy in an astonishing reversal. As never before, Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides as they fought 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 reports of prisoner interrogations, desertions, and executions. The battle of Stalingrad was the psychological turning point of World War II; as Beevor makes clear, it also changed the face of modern warfare. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable. Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-194 UK 670870951 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 940.5421785 BEE Sta 5074 C2O library & collabtive (Fiction & Literature) 4000 Stalingrad.jpg 4953 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated