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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943
By Antony BeevorAntony Beevor reconstructs the battle that broke the German army on the Eastern Front and turned the course of the Second World War. Drawing on Soviet and German archives opened after the Cold War, he tells the story from the high command down to the freezing, starving soldiers trapped in the ruins of the city. Harrowing and meticulous, it remains the best single-volume account of the most decisive battle of the war and a model of narrative military history.
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📄 512 pages⏱ ~4 hr read📅 1999
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Antony Beevor reconstructs the battle that broke the German army on the Eastern Front and turned the course of the Second World War. Drawing on Soviet and German archives opened after the Cold War, he tells the story from the high command down to the freezing, starving soldiers trapped in the ruins of the city. Harrowing and meticulous, it remains the best single-volume account of the most decisive battle of the war and a model of narrative military history.
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