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Stalingrad

Stalingrad

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The book won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1999. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Some chapters elucidate the chain of events that led to the Red Army's victory; composite chapters discuss specific features of the battle: hiwis or deficiencies of urban fighting for Germans.

Law plays Vassili Zaitsev who became a Hero of Russia for killing 225 Axis soldiers including 11 opposing snipers during the battle. Perhaps we now have some consciousness for the absolute boundaries of the miseries we all are capable of inflicting on fellow humans given the right conditions? 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. These mini-arcs were engrossing, none more so than Beevor's tale of Smyslov (Russian Army intelligence) and Dyatlenko (of the Russian NKVD).

Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year “Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad is much more than a military history. Oppure la fame e la sete, terribili per chi è assediato e deve mangiare chicchi di grano m

That may be a book's downside for readers interested in details, but the book has much to offer to readers with limited knowledge. After 18 months of defeat and retreat, the Red Army at long last has its opportunity for retribution against the invader. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Beevor has a knack for putting you in place, as he sets the scene, on both sides, in the run-up to 19 Nov 1942, when Zhukov's forces were unleashed, up to 100 miles to the rear of the German spearhead in the city.For instance, the Sixth Army had to respond to Soviet tactics with "storm-wedges" introduced in 1918: "assault groups of ten men armed with a machine-gun, light mortar and flame-throwers for clearing bunkers, cellars, sewers. The battle became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the vicious war on the eastern front.



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