num_pages: 494
description: The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. 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. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable.
language: English
title: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
titlecomplete: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
characters: Hermann Hoth, Nikita Khrushchev, Hermann Göring, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Vasily Grossman, Vasily Chuikov, Georgy Zhukov, Helmuth Groscurth, Friedrich Paulus, Alexander Edler von Daniels, Lavrentiy Beria, Andrey Yeryomenko, Hans-Valentin Hube, Erich von Manstein
genres: Military History, History, World War II, Historical, Germany, War, Russia, Nonfiction, Russian History, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 35914
places: Volgograd, Soviet Union, Stalingrad, USSR
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Hawthornden Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Wolfson History Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books