Stalingrad

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Beevor gives detailed accounts of General Paulus and Georgy Zhukov and their relationships to Hitler and Stalin respectively. Lowe argues that "What made [ Stalingrad] so refreshing was the way that he combined academic rigour with a storyteller’s sensibility.

I can't say which book is better or worse of the two I've already read, Stalingrad or Berlin: The Downfall 1945. The fanaticism of the young Nazis raised to worship Hitler against the patriotic fervor somehow rekindled in the Russians is discussed.There is a lot of personal narrative from soldiers on both sides that gives one a very heart wrenching and sometimes grotesque idea of the pain and struggle that not only the soldiers went through, but also the civilians that were stuck inside the city.

He just thought that his armies could supply themselves by living off the newly occupied territories. Victoria Mather, Daily Mail “Stalingrad by Antony Beevor is the best battle history for many years – balanced, dramatic, dreadful.After Operation Uranus succeeds in trapping the Sixth Army, the Soviets confidence is boosted tremendously.