Description |
xvii, 462 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-420) and index. |
Summary |
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 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-- inner flap of book jacket. |
Subject |
Zaĭt︠s︡ev, V. G. (Vasiliĭ Grigorʹevich), 1915-1993 or 1994.
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Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943.
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ISBN |
9781568523682 |
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1568523688 |
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