Stalingrad
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First published in 1998, Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 recounts one of the most brutal and consequential battles of the Second World War, when German and Soviet forces fought for control of a city on the banks of the Volga. Drawing on German and Russian military archives, soldiers’ letters and eyewitness testimony, Beevor reconstructs the campaign from the ambitions of Hitler and Stalin to the desperate struggle for survival among the troops and civilians trapped in the ruins. The experiences of German commander Friedrich Paulus and the Soviet forces resisting the invasion reveal a battle shaped as much by political fanaticism and strategic miscalculation as by courage and endurance.
More than a chronicle of military manoeuvres, Stalingrad is a deeply human account of warfare at its most dehumanising, exposing the hunger, cold, terror and extraordinary resilience that defined life on the Eastern Front. Beevor’s lucid narrative brings archival scholarship to life without losing sight of the individual lives behind the statistics, while placing the Soviet victory within the wider turning point of the war in Europe. Awarded several major literary and historical prizes, including the inaugural Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 1999, the book established itself as a landmark of modern military history and a defining work in Beevor’s distinguished career.
From the book
“Stalingrad is no longer a town… Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.”
— Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
On Stalingrad
“A painstakingly thorough study that will become the standard work on the battle of Stalingrad.”
— Kirkus Reviews