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Antony beevor leads up to the events at stalingrad with some background to the siege and its aftermath. In the five month siege that followed, the russians fought to hold stalingrad at any cost, then caught their nazi enemy in an astonishing reversal. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read stalingrad. This book chronicles a titanic battle of far longer duration, more hideous aspect, and perhaps equally decisive importance. The book won the first samuel johnson prize, the wolfson history prize and the hawthornden prize for literature in 1999. Stalingrad is a narrative history written by antony beevor of the battle fought in and around the city of stalingrad during world war ii, as well as the events leading up to it.
In this book, master military historian, antony beevor, applies his proven technique of matching opposing units battle journals by date and time to reconstruct the clashes of the battles in vivid color and detail. Stalingrad the fateful siege 1942 1943 antony beevor. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. But this book is long on personality and short on military strategy. Beevor is descended from a long line of writers, being a son of kinta beevor born janet carinthia waterfield, 22 december 1911 29 august 1995, who was the daughter of lina waterfield, an author and foreign correspondent for the observer and a descendant of lucie duffgordon author of a travelogue on egypt. Stalingrad was the first of beevors epic world war 2 history books. He presents a fairly broad view of the conflict, whilst regularly relying on short anecdotes to give things a personal feel.
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