Craig had access to hundreds of living witnesses to Stalingrad and still-living official sources, something Beevor did not, and the sense of on-the ground humanity is more vivid in Craig.

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. The senior Generals and officers and the political elites of both countries get heard again and again either though state archives or diaries etc. Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year “Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad is much more than a military history.

Revealing, profound and thoroughly unputdownable, Stalingrad is an extraordinary achievement which transcends its genre. Once in the bunker, they finally convince the German company commander to take the message to his commander.

Even as Stalingrad was falling, Rommel was losing in North Africa and America was gearing up to (finally) get in the fight. it] is, in short, a fantastic and sobering story, and it has been fully and authoritatively told in Mr.Of course, there is a flip side to this too in heroism, and medals dished out like they were sweets. Pour leur part, les officiers allemends avaient trop peur de leur chef d'état capricieux pour trouver une stratégie valable.