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The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare
Beevor's latest book�Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge�is now available from Viking Books�
Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.
In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has itnerviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable.
- Sales Rank: #20929 in Books
- Brand: Beevor, Antony
- Published on: 1999-05-01
- Released on: 1999-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.10" w x 5.60" l, 1.05 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 528 pages
Amazon.com Review
Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War: The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision to launch a major invasion of Britain, whose army was unprepared for the force of blitzkrieg warfare. The second was the ill-conceived Operation Barbarossa--an invasion of Russia that was supposed to take the German army to the gates of Moscow. Antony Beevor's thoughtfully researched compendium recalls this epic struggle for Stalingrad. No one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army; Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France and Poland. The ill-prepared Nazi forces were trapped in a bloody war of attrition against the Russian behemoth, which held them in the pit of Stalingrad for nearly two years. Beevor points out that the Russians were by no means ready for the war either, making their stand even more remarkable; Soviet intelligence spent as much time spying on its own forces--in fear of desertion, treachery, and incompetence--as they did on the Nazis. Due attention is also given to the points of view of the soldiers and generals of both forces, from the sickening battles to life in the gulags.
Many believe Stalingrad to be the turning point of the war. The Nazi war machine proved to be fallible as it spread itself too thin for a cause that was born more from arrogance than practicality. The Germans never recovered, and its weakened defenses were no match for the Allied invasion of 1944. We know little of what took place in Stalingrad or its overall significance, leading Beevor to humbly admit that "[t]he Battle of Stalingrad remains such an ideologically charged and symbolically important subject that the last word will not be heard for many years." This is true. But this gripping account should become the standard work against which all others should measure themselves. --Jeremy Storey
From Publishers Weekly
This gripping account of Germany's notorious campaign combines sophisticated use of previously published firsthand accounts in German and Russian along with newly available Soviet archival sources and caches of letters from the front. For Beevor (Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949), the 1942 German offensive was a gamble that reflected Hitler's growing ascendancy over his military subordinates. The wide-open mobile operations that took the 6th Army into Stalingrad were nevertheless so successful that Soviet authorities insisted they could be explained only by treason. (Over 13,000 Soviet soldiers were formally executed during the battle for Stalingrad alone.) Combat in Stalingrad, however, deprived the Germans of their principal force multipliers of initiative and flexibility. The close-gripped fighting brought men to the limits of endurance, then kept them there. Beevor juxtaposes the grotesque with the mundane, demonstrating the routines that men on both sides developed to cope with an environment that brought them to the edge of madness. The end began when German army commander Friedrich von Paulus refused to prepare for the counterattack everyone knew was coming. An encircled 6th Army could neither be supplied by air nor fight its way out of the pocket unsupported. Fewer than 10,000 of Stalingrad's survivors ever saw Germany again. For the Soviet Union, the victory became a symbol not of a government, but of a people. The men and women who died in the city's rubble could have had worse epitaphs than this sympathetic treatment. Agent: Andrew Nurnberg. History Book Club main selection; BOMC alternate selection; foreign sales to the U.K., Germany and Russia.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
More than half a century later, the Battle of Stalingrad still strikes powerful chords. Its titanic scale and ferocity, the endurance and fighting capacities of the combatants, and the huge importance of the outcome to the larger world war beyond combine to give the terrific clash on the Volga a unique, epic quality. All this comes out splendidly in this book. Beevor (Paris After the Liberation, LJ 8/94) has drawn on archival and published sources in Russia and the West, along with revealing interviews with veterans on both sides. The savagery of Stalin's regime toward its own people, struggling to emerge both alive and victorious from the deadly battle with the invading Germans, has not been bettered. This is a thoroughly mesmerizing narrative to be read by specialists and generalists alike. Highly recommended.
-ARobert H. Johnston, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Proceed with caution
By Leo
Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad is an interesting book for anybody who likes the World War II history.
When I finished it I've got a strong impression that the author is much more favorable to the German side of the conflict. This was unusual particularly considering the following WWII history books: "When Titans Clashed",When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies) revised and expanded edition by D.M. Glantz and J.M. House, and "Bloodlands"Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by T. Snider.
Glatz and House are renowned military historians. They are both colonels, US army, retired.
Timothy Snyder is a Professor of history at Yale. Personally I prefer these authors over Mr. Beevor.
1. It seems that any author attempting to write a WWII books wants to bring something new to a reader. One of the main points of Mr. Beevor is that there were many Russians on the German side. He makes this point on the second page of the Preface of the book. These Russians were so called Hilfswillige (HIWIs) basically volunteer laborers who were former POW. With Germans being in the process of starving in excess of 3 million of soviet POW it is hardly surprising that some of them decided to try their luck with their captors. According to Snyder: “The German prisoner-of-war camps in the East were far deadlier then the German concentration camps.” “The Germans shot, on a conservative estimate, half a million Soviet prisoners of war. By way of starvation or mistreatment during transit, they killed about 2.6 million more.”(Bloodlands, p.183, 184). Glantz and House echo this comment:”…at least 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died in German hands through starvation, disease, and exposure, especially during the first year of the invasion. This represented 58% of the total number of Soviet soldiers captured by the Germans.” You will not find these numbers in the Bevor’s book. The major emphasis is on the fate of the German POWs. On page 420 of his book he describes the conditions in the POW camp for Germans: “Although prison camp rations had improved in the summer of 1943, they were still uneven, varying from camp to camp.” I guess one could say that in 1942 the rations of Soviet POWs were even: They were evenly absent. No wonder the ranks of HIWIs were filled with those who preferred life over death. Mr. Beevor keeps reminding a reader about Russian HIWIs throughout the book. I find this focus on HIWIs bit odd and somewhat out of place. It is true the subject of HIWIs is something that was not discussed in so many details in other books. But why is this so important for the battle of Stalingrad?
2. It is my impression that Mr. Beevor draws a caricature of the Red Army: The solders are brainwashed and drunk. Their military tactics are primitive. Coordination between military units is nonexistent. The generals are drunkards as well. They just send their soldiers in the frontal assault in waves and brave Germans cut those poor bastards down with their machine guns and then carry the “dogged fighting retreats”. Concerning the frontal assaults; according to Glantz and House, on December 9th 1941, long before the battle of Stalingrad, Zhukov “issued a directive that forbade frontal assaults and instructed commanders to seek open flanks to penetrate into the German rear areas.”(Titans, p. 79). Of course there are German eyewitnesses of such frontal assaults. However I find such stories to be self-serving for the Germans who lost the battle. It is much easier to explain one’s failure by stating that the enemy was dumb but there were way too many of them than to admit that those subhuman could outsmart gallant Wehrmacht. It is surprising to see such stories taken at their face value and included in the book without any critical comments from the author.
3. It seems to me that Mr. Beevor portrays the Germans in much more favorable light than the Red Army. Sometimes it feels that he is sorry for the Germans to loose: The Germans are homesick. They love Christmas, and miss their families and their homeland. They do on occasion shoot Jewish orphans, rob the locals from whatever has left, and starve soviet POWs but that is the war, right?
4. Unfortunately such pro-German and anti- Red Army bias goes even further. Not only the German defense is applauded but daring Russian operations are downplayed.
Case in point is a description of Major-General Badanov’s 24th Tank Corps 150 mile advance on the major German airfield at Tatsinskaya. After describing this daring raid Mr. Beevor sums it up by saying “Badanov, after this bold raid, found himself cut off for five days, badly mauled and out of ammunition.” (p.301) To meet this sounds like a failure of Badanov.
Now I would like to contrast Bevor description of the raid with that of Glantz and House:
“…Badanov’s 24th Corps aimed to seize the airfield and logistical complex at Tatsinskaia. He accomplished this mission but only at great cost. On Christmas Eve, the 24th Tank Corps, already reduced to fever than 80 of its initial complement of 200 tanks, penetrated to Tatsinskaia, destroying 56 German transport aircraft and rendered the airfield inoperable. Badanov held his position for four days and then escaped the German counterattack with the remnants of his force…Badanov also forced Manstein to keep XXXXVIII Panzer Corps in a defensive role rather than attempting to relive the city, and he drew 6th Panzer Division setting it up for decisive defeat by 2nd Guards Army.” (Titans p. 184).
It seems that for Mr. Beevor Badanov’s raid is nearly a failure whereas for Glantz and House it is a major achievement.
There is at least one other Red Army raid that is basically ignored by Mr. Beevor. This is Maj. General Rodin and Lieutenant Colonel Fillipov capture of the bridge over Don that took at least a paragraph in Glatz and House “When Titans Clashed” (p. 178), the book dealing with the entire Red Army war effort. Mr. Beevor’s book only tangentially mentions the same event in just one sentence. If the raid deserved a paragraph in the book about the entire war effort then why is it neglected in the book about the actual battle? Perhaps it did not fit the picture of dumb, drunkard Russians and gallant Germans.
Bottom line: I would not discourage anybody from reading Mr. Beevor’s Stalingrad, however,I would certainly suggest to read some other books on the subject to get a more balanced view of this key WWII battle which turned the tide of that terrible war.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A Good Account Of A Critical WW II Battle
By wooster
Very thorough representation of the battle for Stalingrad during WW II. Story gets wordy and repetitive at times, but if you want to get a good sense for all-out war .....read this book. It covers the entire 2 year battle in graphic detail, from the initial planning of Operation Barbarossa to the final surrender of the German 6th Army.
Coming through loud and clear in this book:
1. The terror of the war between two merciless armies, a war that went way beyond the battlefields.
2. The decisions and plans of the two dictators (and their senior military officers) that were successful......and those that weren't.
3. Life in the foxholes with the common soldiers.
4. Commonplace murder and torture of POWs by both sides.
5. In-human German atrocities towards Russian civilians.....German SS massacring all the Jews and communists that they laid their hands on.
6. In-human atrocities toward Russian civilians by the Russians themselves....brutalization and murder (by Stalin's vicious secret police) of anyone suspected of any kind of dissent from the `party line'.
7. The extreme sacrifice of the Russian people to hold the Stalingrad area at any cost (no retreat)......stalling the German Army long enough to push the battle into a 2nd Russian winter.
8. Russia's huge contribution to the Allied war effort with their 'stand' at Stalingrad....likely ensuring Germany's ultimate defeat.
This is a good account of a critical WW II battle, but it's a fairly long book, so plan on spending some time with it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Puts you on the frozen ground, waiting for the next attack
By Edmund Pickett
Beevor's "Stalingrad" was so good that I then read his "Ardennes 1944" and it was also superb. To list the advantages of these books I'll start with the lesser ones. First off, they are very well edited. No proofreading errors. Thirty years ago this was a given. Nowadays even major presses put out shoddy books. Secondly, he is a master of sources in however many languages he needs to be to write the story. For the Ardennes, French and German. For Stalingrad, German and Russian. Third, he realizes that perhaps not all his readers are ex-military. He understands that words like regiment, battalion and division might be confusing to civilians (many of whom, like me, have a hard time remembering which is bigger). He explains things like that without being condescending, and also points out that German units in 1944 were usually much smaller than they had been in 1940. Fourth, when I say "sources" I don't only mean previously published works in English and I don't mean just published books. He has apparently read thousands of letters, diaries, and combat field reports from privates to colonels, plus accounts, either written or oral, from civilians or POWs who happened to get caught up in the fighting. On every page, Beevor can go from the view of the generals, looking at their maps, to the eyewitness recollection of a private in either army or a farmer who was there and saw that particular skirmish on that exact day. The expansion in perspective for the reader is astonishing. Many writers attempt a little bit of this but it is still obvious that at heart they are fanboys of the generals. Beevor is not. He covers the strategic view as well as any historian but his sympathies lie with the individuals on the ground, soldiers in foxholes or villagers fleeing the bombardment of their homes. It is not just the reader's perspective that thereby expands to touch the horizons, but also sympathy for every human caught up in the chaos. Fifth, Beevor knows how to write effective invisible prose. No fancy vocabulary, no verbosity, just clear writing that vanishes, enabling the reader to become part of the narrative. This takes humility and great skill. There are few military history books this well written but I would compare Beevor to Ian Toll and James Hornfischer. If you've read them, you know what I mean.
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