Name: Stalingrad
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Author: Antony Beevor
ISBN: 9780140284584

Type

Physical Book

Author

Antony Beevor

Publisher

Penguin

Year

1999

Language

English

Pages

528

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.4 x 13.8 x 2.9 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN

0140284583

ISBN13

9780140284584

Edition No.

Synopsis "Stalingrad "

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has itnerviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.

Antony Beevor

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Educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, he was a regular officer in the British army, which he left after five years of service and moved to Paris, where he wrote his first novel

His essays, translated into more than thirty languages and published in Spanish by Crítica, have been awarded several prizes, especially Stalingrad (2000), recipient of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize, and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 (2002), which has seen a dozen editions in Spanish

Other works include The Battle of Crete (2002), winner of the Runciman Prize, Paris After the Liberation (1944-1949) (2003), The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (2004), The Spanish Civil War (2005), A Writer at War: Vassily Grossman in the Russian Army, 1944-1945 (2006), and D-Day: The Battle of Normandy (2009)

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