Stalingrad

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Ce qui manqué aux Palmeres d'Antony Beevor, c'est le prix Nobel de littérature accordé à un historien pour la dernière fois en 1953. Undoubtedly, the winters were rough, and the Germans unprepared, but as Anthony Beevor makes clear in Stalingrad, the fault did not lie in the weather, but in Hitler and the stars. Christian Tyler, Financial Times “A masterpiece of historical narrative that will still be read in a hundred years. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia' - but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line'"! There is a lot of personal narrative from soldiers on both sides that gives one a very heart wrenching and sometimes grotesque idea of the pain and struggle that not only the soldiers went through, but also the civilians that were stuck inside the city.

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But Hitler and Goebbels tried to buffalo the German people into thinking that the whole army was wiped out. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor, an audio version of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943, solves the puzzle of the battle by looking at individual combatants and the situation in general. The encirclement, lack of supplies, winter and lack of initiative and reality by the high command were all nails in the coffin of the Sixth Army.

Around Gumrak’, the division recorded, ‘enemy resistance became stronger and anti-aircraft guns began firing wildly at our armoured vehicles from the north-west corner of Stalingrad. He has had a number of books published and his book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. It possessed "savage intimacy," which horrified German generals, who felt they were rapidly losing control over events.For example, he reveals the shocking fact that the Soviet authorities executed around 13,500 of their own soldiers at Stalingrad, a demonstration of the brutal coercion used against diserters by the NKVD. Laurence Rees in The Week United States “This gripping account of Germany’s notorious campaign combines sophisticated use of previously published firsthand accounts in German and Russian along with newly available Soviet archival sources and caches of letters from the front. The crossing was probably most eerie for those in the rowing boats, as the water gently slapped the bow, and the rowlocks creaked in unison. Beevor gives detailed accounts of General Paulus and Georgy Zhukov and their relationships to Hitler and Stalin respectively. This was the most appalling part of this conflict as the war of attrition stepped up to inhuman levels effort and endurance.

Beevor points out that the Russians were by no means ready for the war either, making their stand even more remarkable; Soviet intelligence spent as much time spying on its own forces--in fear of desertion, treachery and incompetence--as they did on the Nazis. He creates a no-holds-bared account not only of the battle itself, with its logistics, strategies, and reality, but also of extraordinary events such as disertion of Soviet soldiers, incompetence, self-inflicted wounds, and drunkenness.On 7 September, a day when Heider noted "satisfying progress at Stalingrad", Hitler displayed his exasperation at the failure to advance in the Caucasus. Dopo aver letto “Vita e destino” volevo saperne un po’ di più sulla battaglia di Stalingrado: ne ho saputo pure troppo. The Russian losses are incredible, but to their tiny bit of credit, they were invaded and spent all they could defending.