Did you read the one about THE END OF THE WORLD but the name, ANTONY BEEVOR, was above the title and in as-big or bigger type? Litt from the University of Bath, awarded in 2010, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent, awarded in 2004. It's not a bad book, but as a proclaimed "historical analysis" I can hardly give it more than one star. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front.

Once the Germans are on the defensive, battling Russians and the winter, Beevor's narrative really grips you.The encirclement, lack of supplies, winter and lack of initiative and reality by the high command were all nails in the coffin of the Sixth Army. Description: The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. As Beevor explains, the events on the Caucasus Front, supposedly the Führer's main priority, played a major role in his decision.

They had switched targets from the bombers over the city on sighting the panzers, whose crews ‘seemed to think they were on a Sunday promenade’. Beevor gives detailed accounts of General Paulus and Georgy Zhukov and their relationships to Hitler and Stalin respectively. As a reader, along with the author, moves toward the battle of Stalingrad, the players of different ranks and their fateful decisions come into play.

Fino all’Operazione Urano, la manovra a tenaglia nord-sud iniziata il 19 novembre 1942, che chiuderà la 6° Armata di von Paulus nella sacca di Stalingrado, trasformando l’assediante in assediato e il distruttore in distrutto. Gradually, German soldiers, "red-eyed with exhaustion from the hard fighting, and mourning more comrades than they ever imagined", were losing their victorious mood.