Victory at Stalin grad: The Battle that Changed History. (Reviews).(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | April 1, 2003 | Copyright

Victory at Stalin grad: The Battle that Changed History. Geoffrey Roberts. Longman. [pounds sterling]9.99. 247 pages. ISBN 0-582-77185-4. The author gives his readers a general view of the battle and its significance. Secondly, he sets out to 'summarise, synthesise and criticise the vast literature on Stalingrad'. The German defeat in 1942 was catastrophic: 1.5 million men from German and allied forces were lost and with them the Wehrmacht's reputation as an invincible military force. Russia lost even more men, an estimated 2.5 million, but Russia won the battle and with the ...

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