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Article: Victory at Stalin grad: The Battle that Changed History. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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 victory she turned the tables on Germany: it was 'the turning point in the war on the Eastern Front ...
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