Antony beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th hussars in germany. Beevor has explored russian and and german sources with his customary industry, to produce a gripping and harrowing narrative of the citys fall to the red army in 1945. Antony beevor was educated at winchester and sandhurst. Publication date 2009 topics world war, 19391945 campaigns. He presents a fairly broad view of the conflict, whilst regularly relying on short anecdotes to give things a personal feel. Stalingrad is first and foremost the story of the man on the ground, a soldierseye view of fighting housetohouse on an urban battlefield, with helpless civilians caught in the crossfire.
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