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Stalingrad. By Antony Beevor. Translated by Elín Guðmundsdóttir.
In August 1942, Hitler's powerful Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. During the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought with all their might to hold the city and miraculously managed to turn the tables in their favor and surround the Nazi army. The battle for the ruins of Stalingrad cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad describes the experiences of soldiers on both sides of the war, who fought in inhuman conditions, as well as civilians who were caught in the middle of the conflict. The author describes with great skill and understanding the cruelty, courage and suffering that these people had to endure, and bases his descriptions largely on previously unpublished documents in museums in Germany and Russia. (Bókatíðindi 2007).
In August 1942, Hitler's powerful Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. During the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought with all their might to hold the city and miraculously managed to turn the tables in their favor and surround the Nazi army. The battle for the ruins of Stalingrad cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad describes the experiences of soldiers on both sides of the war, who fought in inhuman conditions, as well as civilians who were caught in the middle of the conflict. The author describes with great skill and understanding the cruelty, courage and suffering that these people had to endure, and bases his descriptions largely on previously unpublished documents in museums in Germany and Russia. (Bókatíðindi 2007).