He writes of the great Manichaean clash between Stalin and Hitler, and the strategic brilliance and fatal flaws of their generals. The battle of Stalingrad is extraordinary in every way: the triumphant invader fought to a standstill then the Soviet trap sprung, surrounding their attackers and the terrible siege, with Germans starving and freezing, forced to fight on by a disbelieving Hitler.The story has never been told as Antony Beevor tells it here. But in August 1942, the overconfident Hitler chose the wrong target, Stalin?s namesake city on the Volga. In June 1941, German forces swept across Soviet territory in an offensive that finally brought them within twenty-five miles of Moscow.
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