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Stalingrad (Paperback)
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Stalingrad (Paperback)
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List price R378
Loot Price R345
Discovery Miles 3 450
You Save R33 (9%)
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The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic
turning point of the second world war. It's a harrowing look at one
of history's darkest moments. 'A superb re-telling. Beevor combines
a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative
techniques of a novelist . . . This is a book that lets the reader
look into the face of battle' Orlando Figes, Sunday Telegraph 'A
brilliantly researched tour de force of military history' Sarah
Bradford, The Times ______________ 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 for Stalingrad 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. ______________ 'Captivating .
. . Jingoistic statues never pay a proper tribute to the dead, but
honest books, like this one, certainly do' Vitali Vitaliev,
Guardian 'Antony Beevor gained access to the unplumbed records, and
he reveals the full awfulness and human cost of the conflict with
scholarly verve and deep sympathy. The pity of war has seldom been
rendered so well' Ben Macintyre
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