Stalingrad

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By fighting in the city, street by street, block by block, and even house by house, the Germans threw away their great advantage of mobility. Vitali Vitaliev Daily Telegraph “Antony Beevor tells an epic story superbly” Keith Baxter, Daily Telegraph “Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad is superb: a gripping and dispassionate account of alternating folly and endurance. He just thought that his armies could supply themselves by living off the newly occupied territories. But it also makes just as much sense that a self-aggrandizing, paranoid-delusional sociopath would be utterly unable to exercise that power, and would make stupid decisions in the unsupported belief that he was always right.

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. After 18 months of defeat and retreat, the Red Army at long last has its opportunity for retribution against the invader.Beevor takes the first 100 pages to give an account of the war in the east up to arriving at the outskirts of Stalingrad. Stalin wanted to hold the Germans within the city while building reserves to mount a counter-offensive in the winter. Ce qui manqué aux Palmeres d'Antony Beevor, c'est le prix Nobel de littérature accordé à un historien pour la dernière fois en 1953. Stunning account of perseverance, deprivation and stupidity surrounding one of the most pivotal battles of WW II. This book starts with operation Barbarossa and goes on towards the fateful siege of the city Stalingrad.

Atrocity is matched by atrocity until you mourn the death of each side while seeing each side having justification. Beevor deals adroitly with tactics and politics, but the human-scale stories make Stalingrad more than a battle buffs’ book. But this gripping account should become the standard work against which all others should measure themselves. The senior Generals and officers and the political elites of both countries get heard again and again either though state archives or diaries etc. Did you read the one about THE END OF THE WORLD but the name, ANTONY BEEVOR, was above the title and in as-big or bigger type?Of course, there is a flip side to this too in heroism, and medals dished out like they were sweets. By the time the battle of Stalingrad commenced – the conflict on the Eastern front had been going for 12 months - soldiers on both sides were already exhausted before the battle for Stalingrad commenced.

Serhiy Oliyinyk, the head of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting department on licensing and distribution-control, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that several paragraphs prevented the import of the books, citing a passage that purportedly said: "Ukrainian nationalists were tasked with shooting the children" so that they could "spare the feelings of SS Sonderkommando". You read about the HiWis (look them up if you don’t know about them) and the select group who fought until the end for the Sixth army. The Record “Time and again Beevor delivers an image or anecdote that leaves the reader with a lasting impression of what the participants felt or thought. Beevor starts with way too much context on Operation Barbarossa, unlike Craig who gets right down to Stalingrad itself.I found it interesting that men who'd essentially created their own self-Holocaust in the hopeless trap they'd made for themselves at Stalingrad couldn't even get their last letters home. In a trice, it was the Sixth Army that turned into stumbling starvelings sans food, sans ammunition, sans fuel, sans everything. For those who took part, it was the happiest day of the whole war, including even the final German surrender in Berlin". The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin’s determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. Recent events in Yemen and Burma, among others, remind us that collectively we appear ignorant of the past, that somehow it is our nature to render appalling harm, regardless of what history has taught us.

However as is common in this type of books there is one aspect which is poorly represented, the actual men who did the fighting, there are very few first hand accounts in the book from your humble German Landser or Russian Ivan. Laurence Rees in The Week United States “This gripping account of Germany’s notorious campaign combines sophisticated use of previously published firsthand accounts in German and Russian along with newly available Soviet archival sources and caches of letters from the front. Some captured commanders (namely, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurbach) were naive enough to create The League of German Officers and ask the Soviets to parachute them into Germany to start the fight against the Nazi regime. Even during this middle section of the book, while the Germans were still on the offensive, I still had problems with the book's coherence. A story of civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature of war itself, Stalingrad remembers the vital role of the soviet war effort.He died falling over on a trip to the bathroom - that doesn't surprise me - but to have survived some of the worst of all the history of the world first and then die that way is ridiculous. This I greatly regret: I have a friend, Josek, who was in that siege as one of many idealistic Polish volunteers who made the incredible trip there, survived despite getting TB, and was given a loaf of bread to set him on his way back to Poland - if you ask me it's more than a one loaf walk, but anyway. Dopo aver letto “Vita e destino” volevo saperne un po’ di più sulla battaglia di Stalingrado: ne ho saputo pure troppo. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. The horrors expended by each side on the other and the fact that almost 10,000 civilians remained alive during the siege.