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Stalingrad : the city that defeated the Third Reich / Jochen Hellbeck ; translated by Christopher Tauchen and Dominic Bonfiglio.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1610394968
  • 9781610394963
Uniform titles:
  • Stalingrad-Protokolle. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
1. Introduction -- A Pivotal Struggle -- Interpretations of the Battle -- Revolutionary Army -- Stalin's City -- Prewar Era -- Army and Party in War -- Commanders and Commissars -- Politics, Up Close -- The Hero Strategy -- Good and Bad Soldiers -- Forms of Combat -- People in War -- Historians of the Avant-Garde -- The Commission in Stalingrad -- The Transcripts -- Sources and Editorial Principles -- 2. A Chorus of Soldiers -- The Fate of the City and Its Residents -- Agrafena Pozdnyakova -- Gurtyev's Rifle Division in Battle -- Vasily Grossman's "In the Line of the Main Drive" -- The Landing at Latoshinka -- The Capture of Field Marshal Paulus -- 3. Nine Accounts of the War -- General Vasily Chuikov -- Guards Division General Alexander Rodimzev -- Nurse Vera Gurova -- A Lieutenant from Odessa : Alexander Averbuch -- Regiment Commander Alexander Gerasimov -- The History Instructor : Captain Nikolai Aksyonov -- Sniper Vasily Zaytsev -- A Simple Soldier : Alexander Parchomenko -- Captain Pyotr Sayonchkovsky -- 4. The Germans Speak -- German Prisoners in February 1943 -- A German Diary from the Kessel -- 5. War and Peace -- Maps.
Subject: Contains testimonies of Red Army commanders and soldiers, party officials and workers regarding the 1942 battle at Stalingrad, during World War II.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. Yet Stalingrad never fell. After months of bitter fighting, 100,000 surviving Germans, huddled in the ruined city, surrendered to Soviet troops.

During the battle and shortly after its conclusion, scores of Red Army commanders and soldiers, party officials and workers spoke with a team of historians who visited from Moscow to record their conversations. The tapestry of their voices provides groundbreaking insights into the thoughts and feelings of Soviet citizens during wartime.

Legendary sniper Vasily Zaytsev recounted the horrors he witnessed at Stalingrad: "You see young girls, children hanging from trees in the park.[ . . .] That has a tremendous impact." Nurse Vera Gurova attended hundreds of wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital every day, but she couldn't forget one young amputee who begged her to avenge his suffering. "Every soldier and officer in Stalingrad was itching to kill as many Germans as possible," said Major Nikolai Aksyonov.

These testimonials were so harrowing and candid that the Kremlin forbade their publication, and they were forgotten by modern history -- until now. Revealed here in English for the first time, they humanize the Soviet defenders and allow Jochen Hellbeck, in Stalingrad , to present a definitive new portrait of the most fateful battle of World War II.

"First published in Germany in 2012 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-486) and index.

1. Introduction -- A Pivotal Struggle -- Interpretations of the Battle -- Revolutionary Army -- Stalin's City -- Prewar Era -- Army and Party in War -- Commanders and Commissars -- Politics, Up Close -- The Hero Strategy -- Good and Bad Soldiers -- Forms of Combat -- People in War -- Historians of the Avant-Garde -- The Commission in Stalingrad -- The Transcripts -- Sources and Editorial Principles -- 2. A Chorus of Soldiers -- The Fate of the City and Its Residents -- Agrafena Pozdnyakova -- Gurtyev's Rifle Division in Battle -- Vasily Grossman's "In the Line of the Main Drive" -- The Landing at Latoshinka -- The Capture of Field Marshal Paulus -- 3. Nine Accounts of the War -- General Vasily Chuikov -- Guards Division General Alexander Rodimzev -- Nurse Vera Gurova -- A Lieutenant from Odessa : Alexander Averbuch -- Regiment Commander Alexander Gerasimov -- The History Instructor : Captain Nikolai Aksyonov -- Sniper Vasily Zaytsev -- A Simple Soldier : Alexander Parchomenko -- Captain Pyotr Sayonchkovsky -- 4. The Germans Speak -- German Prisoners in February 1943 -- A German Diary from the Kessel -- 5. War and Peace -- Maps.

Contains testimonies of Red Army commanders and soldiers, party officials and workers regarding the 1942 battle at Stalingrad, during World War II.

Translated from the German.

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