num_pages: 512
description: This is a timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. 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 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 to both armies. 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. An extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature of war itself, "Stalingrad" will act as a testament to the vital role of the soviet war effort.
language: English
title: Stalingrad
titlecomplete: Stalingrad
characters: Alexander Edler von Daniels, Hans-Valentin Hube, Georgy Zhukov, Hermann Hoth, Adolf Hitler, Vasily Chuikov, Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin, Vasily Grossman, Hermann Göring, Erich von Manstein, Friedrich Paulus, Andrey Yeryomenko, Helmuth Groscurth, Lavrentiy Beria
genres: Historical, War, Nonfiction, Military History, Germany, Russian History, Military Fiction, Russia, History, World War II
ratings_count: 35924
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 USA (P)