Books: Brought down by the sinister tango STALINGRAD by Antony Beevor, Viking pounds 25

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: May 3, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

THE YOUNG soldiers of Hitler's Sixth Army marching across the Don steppe towards the Volga city of Stalingrad in the summer of 1942 had tanned brows and sunglasses to reduce the glare from fields of sunflowers and wheat stretching over the horizon. Collective farms torched by the Soviets gradually gave way to cherry orchards and tidy Cossack hamlets, where the inhabitants gave the invaders so much food that they were sometimes sick on a surfeit of ham and honey. In late January, 1943, the remnants of the same army, by now bearded, emaciated, lice-ridden, and with dulled eyes averted, crawled ...

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