Stalingrad

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Of course, there is a flip side to this too in heroism, and medals dished out like they were sweets. Napoleon was failed by the logistics of his day and age; the harder he pressed Kutuzov, and the deeper he got into Russia, the longer his supply line became. To me it was inevitable Germany was going to lose with Germany’s Generals fear of Hitler even though they were aware of what was happening in Stalingrad. The young gun crews furiously ‘wound the handles, depressing the barrels to zero elevation -- the Soviet 37-mm anti-aircraft guns were fairly crude copies of the Bofors — and traversed on to the leading armoured vehicles. This epic account contains many maps of military formations, detailed breakdowns of the forces involved, and details of the generals and senior officers involved on both sides.

As he also reveals, since the fall of Rostov, any means of igniting resistance had become permissible: on September 8, a picture in Stalingrad Front newspaper showed "a frightened girl with her limbs bound. Vitali Vitaliev Daily Telegraph “Antony Beevor tells an epic story superbly” Keith Baxter, Daily Telegraph “Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad is superb: a gripping and dispassionate account of alternating folly and endurance.The narrative of Stalingrad is captivating, even for someone like myself who takes little interest in military matters. Beevor has a knack for putting you in place, as he sets the scene, on both sides, in the run-up to 19 Nov 1942, when Zhukov's forces were unleashed, up to 100 miles to the rear of the German spearhead in the city. Stalin wanted to hold the Germans within the city while building reserves to mount a counter-offensive in the winter.

According to Beevor, the fighting in Stalingrad was remarkable because it represented a whole new form of warfare, concentrated "in the ruins of civillian life.He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. 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. For instance, the Sixth Army had to respond to Soviet tactics with "storm-wedges" introduced in 1918: "assault groups of ten men armed with a machine-gun, light mortar and flame-throwers for clearing bunkers, cellars, sewers. On his retreat, Napoleon famously remarked that "from the sublime to the ridiculous is but a single step.

It makes perfect sense that a self-aggrandizing, paranoid-delusional sociopath such as Hitler would strive for absolute power and, with a few breaks along the way, eventually achieve it. In short, Stalingrad is a great book, the sort of account a battle so important and breathtakingly vicious deserves. The Record “Time and again Beevor delivers an image or anecdote that leaves the reader with a lasting impression of what the participants felt or thought. Though Grossman himself was actually there reporting from the front lines, Beevor's book is much much deeper, thus resulting in a richer and more rewarding reading experience when it comes to the Battle of Stalingrad. The mistake at issue in Beevor's Stalingrad is that there was ever a battle of Stalingrad in the first place.If I was the criticise this book, I would say that it was a slow starter, hard to understand or imagine the scale of the battle and I felt I missed the house to house combat in the earlier stages of the battle. Scherzi a parte, è un libro interessantissimo, fatto molto, bene, documentato, ragionato e ben adatto a chi non è addetto ai lavori (storia militare, etc. The Third Reich would reach it's ceiling; its high point, before the gradual decline and a vengeful Stalin marching his Soviet forces west to steamroll Berlin. For example, he reveals the shocking fact that the Soviet authorities executed around 13,500 of their own soldiers at Stalingrad, a demonstration of the brutal coercion used against diserters by the NKVD.