Stalingrad

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Grazie allo spoglio degli archivi tedeschi e russi, ma soprattutto dell’NKVD (la mamma del KGB di putiniana memoria) e alla consultazione ed analisi di rapporti, lettere dei soldati a casa, interrogatori dei prigionieri, nonché memorie e interviste ai sopravvissuti, vengono alla luce piccole e piccolissime storie, non solo di ufficiali superiori, ma di soldati e civili travolti, sbattuti, inghiottiti e divorati nel terribile gorgo di Stalingrado. I have recapped what the book told me and I am able to conclude that I know when and how it started, what the German plans were, who was in charge, who fought there, how the battle panned out, how the Red Army held on, why they won, how they won and the huge impact of this for the influence of the outcome of the war and the expanse of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. Then began a nightmarish ordeal as the Germans suffered from frostbite, disease, and even starvation during a siege that finally ended at the end of January, 1943. This was the most appalling part of this conflict as the war of attrition stepped up to inhuman levels effort and endurance. Amanda Foreman, Independent “This magisterial account of the battle by Antony Beevor, the foremost military historian of his generation.

It deserves to be understood by every literate westerner, because what happened on the Eastern Front had a decisive impact on the post-war world. Diplomé du college célebre Sandhurst, Beevor admire profondement les grands guerriers sans les idolatrer. While the German atrocities in Russia are briefly recounted at the book's start, the Russian atrocities - against their own troops, no less! Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. The Volga was cut and Stalingrad's war industries destroyed – both the goals defined in Operation Blue (the main Nazi offensive in southern Russia).

That is why the Soviets could send so many to die without giving them training, arms or tactics to succeed. German soldiers, looted clothing from civicilans, and their shelter – to the point of tearing down their houses.

Revealing, profound and thoroughly unputdownable, Stalingrad is an extraordinary achievement which transcends its genre.

No-one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army; Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France and Poland. Both Hitler and his generals were astonished that the Russians had so many more men, tanks, and planes when it had seemed that there was nothing left on the Russian side but stumbling starvelings. Part 1, Chapter one: The Double-Edged Sword of Barbarossa: Saturday, 21 June 1941, produced a perfect summer¨'s morning. On the north front, Russians sent in Lend-Lease American tanks, which with their thin protection, proved easier to knock out. The Nazi war machine proved to be fallible as it spread itself too thin for a cause that was born more from arrogance than practicality.

The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally destructive to both armies.

As the Eastern Front collapsed toward the Volga, the Russians were closer to their base of supply in the Urals and around Moscow, while the Germans were dangerously stretched.

Storie terribili che ricordano e anticipano le spietate battaglie di Kobane e Mosul, in cui il fanatismo, l’odio sadico e distruttivo la fanno da padroni. Second, Hitler and Stalin appeared as undeclared contestants in an evil brutality challenge, with the result being a tie. San Diego Union-Tribune “Stalingrad is a splendid piece of work, on the human as well as the historical level” St. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.

The second was the ill-conceived Operation Barbarossa--an invasion of Russia that was supposed to take the German army to the gates of Moscow. The distant crack of rifle shots and the thump of shell bursts sounded hollow over the expanse of river. After 18 months of advance, 2000 miles deep into the Russian hinterland, the German Army experiences the elation of success, rolling in Panzer columns unopposed across the vast Russian steppe (prairie) between the rivers Don and Volga.