Stalingrad

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If I was the criticise this book, I would say that it was a slow starter, hard to understand or imagine the scale of the battle and I felt I missed the house to house combat in the earlier stages of the battle. Beevor does get bogged down on detail which is excellent but a few more maps would have been helpful. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London.

Hitler si Antonescu au avut o discutie tensionata in "Wolfschanze" (buncarul lui Hitler din Prusia Orientala). A story of civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature of war itself, Stalingrad remembers the vital role of the soviet war effort. Yet typing those words feels wholly insufficient, even a mockery, given the collective amount of suffering so many endured for so long. Beevor is at his absolute best when he leaves the generalities and finds a specific character or two to follow for a couple of pages.As they approached the shore, they caught the smell of charred buildings and the sickly stench from decaying corpses under the rubble. I can't say which book is better or worse of the two I've already read, Stalingrad or Berlin: The Downfall 1945. Scherzi a parte, è un libro interessantissimo, fatto molto, bene, documentato, ragionato e ben adatto a chi non è addetto ai lavori (storia militare, etc. So, although when the first phase of the German onslaught began on September 13, the Germans made progress into the western edge of the city, capturing the small airfield and some barracks, the fighting proved to be much harder than they'd expected. Napoleon was failed by the logistics of his day and age; the harder he pressed Kutuzov, and the deeper he got into Russia, the longer his supply line became.

I found this to be the weakest part of the book, and it actually made me pause and consider continuing. Then began a nightmarish ordeal as the Germans suffered from frostbite, disease, and even starvation during a siege that finally ended at the end of January, 1943.

You hear about the stories of typhus, dysentery, diphtheria outbreaks, and you shudder at the idea of being a soldier in a trench, being put through the most hellish conditions. The young gun crews furiously ‘wound the handles, depressing the barrels to zero elevation -- the Soviet 37-mm anti-aircraft guns were fairly crude copies of the Bofors — and traversed on to the leading armoured vehicles.

The brutal Russian winter - which played a huge part in the final encirclement and devastation of the German Sixth Army - is another thing that really takes hold in this book. It has much to teach us, born into the pampered post-war epoch, about the unfathomable evil of which human beings are capable.

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. I couldn’t help but picture what life must’ve been for the Russians and how after seeing their dead comrades shown no mercy by the Germans, they were praying for revenge. As Beevor explains, the events on the Caucasus Front, supposedly the Führer's main priority, played a major role in his decision. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination and its citizens endured unimaginable hardship as a result. It makes perfect sense that a self-aggrandizing, paranoid-delusional sociopath such as Hitler would strive for absolute power and, with a few breaks along the way, eventually achieve it.

The battle became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. Description: The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare.However, Mark is seen reading it throughout all nine series, implying that he has not actually finished the book in the 12 years that pass in the show. He concludes that Stalingrad is "a fantastic and sobering story, and it has been fully and authoritatively told in Mr.