Enemy at the gates

Description

Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle of WWII, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It signaled the beginning of the end for the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler; it foretold the Russian juggernaut that would destroy Berlin and make the Soviet Union a superpower. As Winston Churchill characterized the result of the conflict at Stalingrad: " the hinge of fate had turned." William Craig, author and historian, has painstakingly recreated the details of this great battle: from the hot summer of August 1942, when the German armies smashed their way across southern Russia toward the Volga River, through the struggle for Stalingrad-a city Hitler had never meant to capture and Stalin never meant to defend-on to the destruction of the supposedly invincible German Sixth Army and the terror of the Russian prison camps in frozen Siberia. Craig has interviewed hundreds of survivors of the battle-both Russian and German soldiers and civilians-and has woven their incredible experiences into the fabric of hitherto unknown documents. The resulting mosaic is epic in scope, and the human tragedy that unfolds is awesome.

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Other Editions

• Enemy at the gates: the battle for Stalingrad.Reader's Digest Press1973-01-01
• Enemy at the gatesReader's Digest Press1973-01-01
• Enemy at the gatesHodder and Stoughton1973-01-01
• Enemy at the gatesReader's Digest Press1973-01-01
• Enemy at the GatesMass Market PaperbackBallantine Books1974-03-12
• Enemy at the gatesPaperbackBantam Books1982-01-01