Stalingrad biography books
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Stalingrad
Q. You are obviously famous for your book Stalingrad – can you explain why that was another key moment in the war?
Antony Beevor: “Stalingrad was the psychological turning point of the war. It took place between 23 August 1942 to 2 February 1943 and it was the largest battle on the Eastern Front. Nazi Germany and their allies were fighting for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwest Russia. The geopolitical turning point of the war came slightly earlier, even though people didn’t really recognise it at the time. It was in December 1941, when the German armies were repulsed in front of Moscow and Hitler decided to declare war on the United States after Pearl Harbor. But Stalingrad was vital in its own particular way because the Red Army for the first time held its ground in the city, fighting in desperate circumstances. Also, its new commanders had the foresight to do what they felt was necessary rather than being terrified of being arrested for their actions, which was the case in the earlier part of the war.
Two Soviet generals, Georgy Zhukov and Aleksandr Vasilevsky, came up with this plan to encircle the whole of the Sixth Army, which was incredibly ambitious. The Germans saw that it was a possibility but they simply did not
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The Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes
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Product information:
- Publisher: Amberley
- Year: 2022
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 240x162mm
- ISBN: 9781398110717
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
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Stalingrad
“Beevor’s account expend this unbroken war esteem a twine de force.”Orlando Figes, Sun Telegraph
“At earlier, it matte as hypothesize I was reading a classical epos drama ceremony the scale of Warfare and Peace...”Vitali Vitaliev, Guardian
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