Battle of Stalingrad
Briefing
From August 1942 to February 1943 the fight for Stalingrad consumed nearly two million casualties in house-to-house combat the Germans called Rattenkrieg — rat war. The Soviet encirclement of November 1942 trapped the entire German Sixth Army; roughly 91,000 starving survivors surrendered in February, of whom only a few thousand ever returned home. It was the turning point of the war in Europe.
Books Covering This Event (16)
Popular History
A monumental history of Nazi Germany from its origins through its destruction, written by a journalist who.
The BBC's Moscow correspondent, who spent the entire war in the USSR, writes the inside account of the Soviet war effort.
The battle for Stalingrad told through hundreds of interviews with survivors on both sides.
A single-volume history of the entire war by the most influential military historian of the 20th century.
The definitive account of the Battle of Stalingrad, drawing on Soviet archives opened after the Cold War.
The life and death of the ordinary Red Army soldier, from the catastrophe of 1941 to Berlin.
A single-volume history of the war organised around one question: why did the Axis lose?
A global history of the war focused on the experience of ordinary people — soldiers and civilians — caught in.
Memoir
A young Alsatian conscript's memoir of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, 1942–1945.
An oral history of the million Soviet women who fought — snipers, pilots, tank drivers, medics — in their own voices.
A Wehrmacht machine-gunner's secret notes from Stalingrad and the long retreat, hidden for fifty years.
Grossman's wartime notebooks as a Red Army correspondent, edited by Antony Beevor — Stalingrad, Kursk, Treblinka, Berlin.
Historical Fiction
The prequel to Life and Fate — the Shaposhnikov family as the German tide reaches the Volga — finally published uncensored in 2019.
The War and Peace of the twentieth century — one extended family swept through Stalingrad, the Gulag, and the Shoah.
An SS intelligence officer narrates his own war — Babi Yar, Stalingrad, Auschwitz — with monstrous erudition and no remorse.
