Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad" is a harrowing look at one of
history's darkest moments. In October 1942, a panzer officer
wrote 'Stalingrad is no ... Show synopsis Antony Beevor's
"Stalingrad" is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest
moments. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is
no longer a town...Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones
cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle for
Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination
to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The
citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the
battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each
building, was brutally destructive to both armies. But the
eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler's
Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler's
territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his decline.
An extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery,
obsession, carnage and the nature of war itself, Staling