As Winston Churchill characterized the result of the conflict at Stalingrad: "?the hinge of fate had turned." William Craig, author and historian, has painstakingly recreated the details of this great battle: from the hot summer of August 1942, when the German armies smashed their way across southern Russia toward the Volga River, through the struggle for Stalingrad-a city Hitler had never meant to capture and Stalin never meant to defend-on to the destruction of the supposedly invincible German Sixth Army and the terror of the Russian prison camps in frozen Siberia. It signaled the beginning of the end for the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler it foretold the Russian juggernaut that would destroy Berlin and make the Soviet Union a superpower. Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. Read Online and Download Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad BY William Craig
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