Summary
Stalingrad: Hell on Earth
In October 1942, a Panzer 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 to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally destructive…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141032405 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141032405 |
| Author: | Antony Beevor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 402g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 33mm |
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A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier’s understanding of war’s realities with the narrative techniques of a novelist … This is a book that lets the reader look into the face of battle
A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier’s understanding of war’s realities with the narrative techniques of a novelist … This is a book that lets the reader look into the face of battle – Orlando Figes Sunday Telegraph A brilliantly researched tour de force of military history – Sarah Bradford The Times
About The Author
Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor is the author of Crete- The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), Berlin- The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), D-Day- The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), The Second World War, Ardennes 1944 (Prix Medicis shortlist) and Arnhem. The number one bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor’s books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold over eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London. He was knighted in 2017.
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