Stalingrado

The most decisive battle of the Second World War was fought in Stalingrad. Its story has been told many times, but never as in this book by Antony Beevor, which has been praised by specialists such as Orlando Figes and Robert Conquest, and which has become an international bestseller. Beevor has carried out meticulous research in Russian and German archives, extracting previously unknown soldiers' letters and testimonies, and has interviewed survivors from both sides to reconstruct the vivid experience of an immense tragedy. This has allowed him to construct a narrative of which Dirk Bogarde said it was "a magnificent winter tapestry, which reads like a novel, rather than the superb history book it truly is" and which has led Vitali Vitaliev to describe it as "an epic drama with the breadth of War and Peace."

The most decisive battle of the Second World War was fought in Stalingrad. Its story has been told many times, but never as in this book by Antony Beevor, which has been praised by specialists such as Orlando Figes and Robert Conquest, and which has become an international bestseller. Beevor has carried out meticulous research in Russian and German archives, extracting previously unknown soldiers' letters and testimonies, and has interviewed survivors from both sides to reconstruct the vivid experience of an immense tragedy. This has allowed him to construct a narrative of which Dirk Bogarde said it was "a magnificent winter tapestry, which reads like a novel, rather than the superb history book it truly is" and which has led Vitali Vitaliev to describe it as "an epic drama with the breadth of War and Peace."