Stalingrad

This history reconstructs the 1942-43 battle for Stalingrad, from the German advance across the steppe and the fight for the city's factories and riverbank to the Soviet encirclement of the Sixth Army and its destruction in the winter pocket. Beevor uses German, Soviet, and civilian testimony to follow Paulus's command, Chuikov's defenders, the airlift, and the hunger inside the Kessel. Maps and orders sit beside the experience of ordinary soldiers and townsfolk. The book is a campaign history of one battle on the Eastern Front, not a biography of Hitler or Stalin and not a general history of the war.

Bound in light grey buckram with black illustration on cover and white lettering on spine. Grey slipcase with black and grey illustration.