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Original Title:	Stalingrad.
ISBN:	346203054X (ISBN13: 9783462030549)

Stalingrad Ebook | Pages: 261 pages

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Title	:	Stalingrad
Author	:	Theodor Plievier
Book Format	:	Ebook
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 261 pages
Published	:	A WWII Reading List 508 books — 346 voters World War II Fiction & Non-fiction 505 books — 315 voters
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Fiction. World War II. Cultural. Russia

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Anyone who has read the histories and memoirs of the fighting on the Eastern Front, especially Stalingrad, will not find anything new in Plievier's book yet it still manages to capture that descent into Hell that was the common experience for the soldiers of this, the greatest battle of the Second World War. The book was written in 1948 and that immediately makes it stand out as a forerunner of gritty, down-to-earth literary depictions of the horrors of war. There were many occasions when I had to pinch myself to remind myself that this was a work of fiction and not a historical memoir. Pleivier was able to carry out first-hand research and visit the battlefield whilst it still held its horrors frozen in its jaws. So often I could visualise the brutality and discomfort, the cold and hunger, the loss of hope and appalling loss of life. There are images here that would be worthy of a modern-day Dante.
The book does have its flaws (if that is the correct term to use). There are times when it does read like the script to a propaganda movie where the hero argues about the futility and immorality of it all against hardened Nazis. The fanatical resistance offered by the Germans is depicted as the consequence of indecision and omission on the part of the military leadership in order to further stress the betrayal of the ordinary soldier by a corrupt elite. I am overemphasising the flaws. Overall this is a powerful read made more dramatic by the howling blizzard blowing outside and the bone-chilling cold assaulting me in this, the coldest March we've had in 50 years.

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Anyone who has read the histories and memoirs of the fighting on the Eastern Front, especially Stalingrad, will not find anything new in Plievier's book yet it still manages to capture that descent into Hell that was the common experience for the soldiers of this, the greatest battle of the Second World War. The book was written in 1948 and that immediately makes it stand out as a forerunner of gritty, down-to-earth literary depictions of the horrors of war. There were many occasions when I had

this book is from 1948, and is an impressionistic view of the defeat of the German 6th (?) army in and around Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-43. It details the weaknesses, disorganization, and eventual disillusion and collapse of the soldiers, officers and general staff as the Russians encircled and crushed the Nazi forces. Interestingly, there is almost no description of actual combat in the book, especially if you don't count the harrowing descriptions of living under almost constant

I read this a long time ago and it always hovered around in the back of my mind whenever I read anything about Stalingrad. I read it again last year and it was as good and as grim as I remembered it. For those who might like a flash, bang, wallop combat book this is not that book. I should know as I enjoy that sort of thing as well. It is however a masterful depiction of how stuff just falls apart, how people accept worsening situations and get on with things in impossible circumstances. In

Anyone who has read the histories and memoirs of the fighting on the Eastern Front, especially Stalingrad, will not find anything new in Plievier's book yet it still manages to capture that descent into Hell that was the common experience for the soldiers of this, the greatest battle of the Second World War. The book was written in 1948 and that immediately makes it stand out as a forerunner of gritty, down-to-earth literary depictions of the horrors of war. There were many occasions when I had

War is a bummer. It's a bummer for everyone involved. But in the case of this book it was really a bummer for the German army that had to go try and conquer Russia in the winter. They got trapped and cut off. So they end up starving and shooting themselves and it just sucks. It's important to note that the characters in this story aren't nazis. The nazis are their bosses and their bosses are insane. So there's a degree of empathy that one can have for these poor fucks without compromising ones

After reading Stalingrad it seems inadequate to describe the battle in the way so many military histories do. While it was "the turning point of the war" and "Germany's greatest defeat" this ignores the immense waste of human life, the incredible suffering, the brutality, the bravery and the pointlessness of the battle. Stalingrad is not an easy book to read. In part because Plievier spares the reader nothing in his descriptions of war and the consequences of war. But the novel, like its sequel,

World War II, Russia