The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2______________In October 1942, an 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 and its citizens endured unimaginable hardship as a result. 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.______________’He reveals the full awfulness and human cost of the conflict with scholarly verve and deep sympathy’ Ben Macintyre’A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier’s understanding of war’s realities with the narrative techniques of a novelist’ Orlando Figes, Sunday Telegraph’A brilliantly researched tour de force of military history’ Sarah Bradford, The Times
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