Stalingrad

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    STALINGRAD
    ‘My choice this year is, without any doubt, Antony Beevor’s
Stalingrad
, a magnificent winter tapestry… it reads like an accessible novel rather than the superb history book which it really is’ Dirk Bogarde,
Daily Telegraph
    ‘Antony Beevor’s
Stalingrad
is superb: a gripping and dispassionate account of alternating folly and endurance’ Nicholas Shakespeare,
Daily Telegraph
    ‘I have recently read and been hugely impressed by
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor’ Ben Elton,
Sunday Telegraph
    ‘
Stalingrad
is distinguished not only for its exhaustive research and sheer narrative drive, but for its portrayal of the ordinarily human during one of the most atrocious battles of the century’ Colin Thubron,
Sunday Telegraph
    ‘A brilliantly researched
tour de force
’ Sarah Bradford,
Sunday Times
    ‘
Stalingrad
by Anthony Beevor is the best battle history for many years – balanced, dramatic, dreadful’ Robert Conquest,
The Times Literary Supplement
    ‘
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor cannot fail to leave one moved’ Victoria Mather,
Daily Mail
    ‘As good a piece of war history as I have ever read’ Jeremy Paxman,
Sunday Telegraph
    ‘Revealing, profound and thoroughly unputdownable,
Stalingrad
is an extraordinary achievement which transcends its genre… It felt as if I was reading a classical epic drama of the scope of
War and Peace
’ Vitali Vitaliev,
Daily Telegraph
    ‘A classic…
Stalingrad
is only bedtime reading for those who do not dream’ Amanda Foreman,
Independent
    ‘This book is overpowering… Beevor’s description of the events of the battle remain with the reader long after the book has been closed’
Toronto Globe and Mail
    ‘This retelling of the Battle of Stalingrad has proved to be a surprising runaway hit. It is no small achievement to have reached such a wide audience with the pity of this particular war’
Economist
    ‘Truly powerful’ David Pryce-Jones, Daily Mail
    ‘Stalingrad’s heart-piercing tragedy needed a chronicler with acute insight into human nature as well as the forces of history. Antony ‘Beevor is that historian’
Philadelphia Inquirer
    ‘A wonderfully readable work of history’
Wall Street Journal
    ‘A masterly account of hubris and nemesis on a classic scale… he has written an authoritative and profoundly human study’ Patrick Skene Catling,
Irish Times
    ‘The Stalingrad story is biblical in its extremes of barbarism and heroism, and Antony Beevor has told it superbly’ Andrew Roberts,
Literary Review
    ‘Superb… a story you’ll never forget. There has never been a battle like this one, and there has never been a book about a battle such as this’
Australian
    ‘Antony Beevor has produced a compelling and extraordinary story, richly detailed and engrossingly written. Western scholars owe him a very great debt. We now have the real history of Stalingrad without myth or embellishment’ Richard Overy, author of
Why the Allies Won
and
Russia
’
s War
    ‘One is convinced by his scholarship, and increasingly moved by the drama… he succeeds brilliantly’ Nigel Nicolson,
Spectator
    ‘This brilliant tapestry’ Alan Clark,
New Statesman

STALINGRAD
    Antony Beevor
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    First published by Viking 1998
First published in Penguin Books 1999
This edition published 2007
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    Copyright © Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper, 1998
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    The moral right of the author has been asserted
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