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Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich

Jochen Hellbeck
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The turning point of WWII came at Stalingrad. Hitler’s soldiers stormed the city in 9/42 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. Yet Stalingrad never fell. After months of bitter fighting, 100,000 surviving Germans, huddled in the ruined city, surrendered to Soviet troops. During the battle & shortly after its conclusion, scores of Red Army commanders & soldiers, party officials & workers spoke with a team of historians who visited from Moscow to record their conversations. The tapestry of their voices provides groundbreaking insights into the thoughts & feelings of Soviet citizens during wartime. Legendary sniper Vasily Zaytsev recounted the horrors he witnessed at Stalingrad: “You see young girls, children hanging from trees in the park...That has a tremendous impact.” Nurse Vera Gurova attended hundreds of wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital every day, but she couldn’t forget one young amputee who begged her to avenge his suffering. “Every soldier & officer in Stalingrad was itching to kill as many Germans as possible,” said Major Nikolai Aksyonov. These testimonials were so harrowingly candid that the Kremlin forbade their publication, & they were forgotten by modern history—until now. Revealed here in English for the 1st time, they humanize the Soviet defenders & allow Hellbeck, in Stalingrad, to present a new portrait of the most fateful battle of WWII.
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Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich

Jochen Hellbeck
3.95/5 (112 ratings)
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The turning point of WWII came at Stalingrad. Hitler’s soldiers stormed the city in 9/42 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. Yet Stalingrad never fell. After months of bitter fighting, 100,000 surviving Germans, huddled in the ruined city, surrendered to Soviet troops. During the battle & shortly after its conclusion, scores of Red Army commanders & soldiers, party officials & workers spoke with a team of historians who visited from Moscow to record their conversations. The tapestry of their voices provides groundbreaking insights into the thoughts & feelings of Soviet citizens during wartime. Legendary sniper Vasily Zaytsev recounted the horrors he witnessed at Stalingrad: “You see young girls, children hanging from trees in the park...That has a tremendous impact.” Nurse Vera Gurova attended hundreds of wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital every day, but she couldn’t forget one young amputee who begged her to avenge his suffering. “Every soldier & officer in Stalingrad was itching to kill as many Germans as possible,” said Major Nikolai Aksyonov. These testimonials were so harrowingly candid that the Kremlin forbade their publication, & they were forgotten by modern history—until now. Revealed here in English for the 1st time, they humanize the Soviet defenders & allow Hellbeck, in Stalingrad, to present a new portrait of the most fateful battle of WWII.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
ISBN10:
1610394968
ISBN13:
9781610394963
kindle Asin:
B00PWX7U9E

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