Antony Beevor
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| Original Title: | Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 |
| ISBN: | 0140284583 (ISBN13: 9780140284584) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Joseph Stalin, Hermann Göring, Friedrich Paulus, Georgy Zhukov, Erich von Manstein, Vasily Grossman, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrentiy Beria, Adolf Hitler, Vasily Chuikov, Alexander Edler von Daniels, Helmuth Groscurth, Hans-Valentin Hube, Hermann Hoth, Andrey Yeryomenko |
| Setting: | Volgograd(Russian Federation) Stalingrad, USSR,1942 Soviet Union,1942 |
| Literary Awards: | Hawthornden Prize (1999), Wolfson History Prize (1999), Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (1999) |
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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.Be Specific About Of Books Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
| Title | : | Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 |
| Author | : | Antony Beevor |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 494 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1999 by Penguin Books (first published July 1st 1998) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. War. World War II. Cultural. Russia. Military. Military History. Military Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.31 From 26873 Users | 947 ReviewsWeigh Up Of Books Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
As with Mr. Beevors The Fall of Berlin 1945, Stalingrad is an excellent book, well written and researched. I have three primary thoughts:First, to synthesize the standard American narrative of the Second World Wars European Theatre, it was the United States who broke the back of Nazi Germany, rescuing, yet again, the French (and others) from the Germans. It was the United States who provided substantial material support to Russia, significantly enhancing their ability to defeat Germany. While
This is an excellent account of the battle of Stalingrad, I'd place it next to 'Enemy at the Gates'. The author gives you an overview of the military situation on the Eastern Front prior to the German Offensive towards Stalingrad on the Volga. The author tells the story of this terrible battle through the accounts of those soldiers who endured this inferno and survived as well as using letters and diaries of those who didn't! This is a story of the fighting, not of the strategy and tactics
I rate this book high, but it was not a pleasure to read, primarily because of the subject matter itself, not because of the authors choices. These days its clear that our view of WWII usually downplay the role of Russia in winning the war. Not perhaps surprising in the past where we were brought up to see the USSR as enemy number one. But actually, the USSR and its leader Stalin were allies in WWII. We were also led to believe not only that Stalin and his country were wicked but that the
What can one say about this book! Antony Beevor has written a tome that will last the ages.I found this book so easy to read and follow, but also exciting and majorly informative. I came into this book, not having much knowledge of Stalingrad and the battle/s surrounding it. There is a lot of personal narrative from soldiers on both sides that gives one a very heart wrenching and sometimes grotesque idea of the pain and struggle that not only the soldiers went through, but also the civilians
So, I'm watching a movie in German about the siege of Stalingrad last night while I'm knitting and my first thought was 'but I won't have a clue what is going on' and my second is 'fair enough....why should I have an unfair advantage over the poor fuckers who were there in the thick of it.' Just because I'm watching the movie, it shouldn't give me an edge.Afterwards, explaining this to my mother, she asked, so did you get it? And I'm like 'nope, but neither did they.' Bunches of people being
It's not a bad book, but as a proclaimed "historical analysis" I can hardly give it more than one star. Reasons include:- Heavy anti-Soviet bias. The author tries very hard to hammer in the notion of every Red Army soldier being a drunken lout. "Slavic peasant" phrasing is uncomfortably common, and it makes you question the author's intentions.- Use of individual anecdotes to portray behaviors depicted in those anecdotes as common and regular.- Unfounded claims, the most jarring of which being
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