Stalingrad
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Beevor doet niet alleen verslag van een oorlogsstrategie, maar laat vooral de persoonlijke stemmen klinken van Russische en Duitse soldaten en van gewone mannen, vrouwen en kinderen in hun uiterste krachtmeting met oorlog, honger en kou.
Stalingrad: de wreedste veldslag van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de titanenstrijd tussen Stalin en Hitler, die zes donkere maanden duurde en een keerpunt in de geschiedenis zou betekenen. Van een weelderige stad aan de oevers van de Wolga veranderde Stalingrad in een inferno, waarin honderdduizend mensen zouden verschroeien in het vuur van bombardementen of bevriezen in de meedogenloze Russische winter.
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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.
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