Stalingrad
(Beevor, Antony)
Stalingrad was a battle in the Second World War that involved millionsof soldiers in the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army, butultimately it was the battle between two men and their wills andvanities: Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany and absolute ruler ofmost of Europe, and Joseph Stalin, the undisputed chief of the USSR.Hitler, impatient to enforce his will on Europe and eager to show theGeneral Staff how he was better at strategy than they were, hurled theSixth Army, the largest formation in the Wehrmacht, at the Volga River.Stalin, rarely leaving his capital and trapped in the grip of paranoia,ordered the retreating Red Army to halt in its tracks and hold on tothe city bearing his name. For six months the armies blasted at oneanother, while their leaders hurled misguided encouragements, threatsand exhortions at them, until finally the Soviets trapped the SixthArmy in a pocket and reduced it to ruin.That's the story that is presented in Beevor's book, and he does atop-notch job in sharing the hopes and fears of multitudes of German,Russian, Hungarian and other soldiers, facing each other in the wreckedruins of a city and with firing squads at their back. He also does agood job of portraying Hitler as a leader losing his grip on realityover a thousand miles from the front line, while Stalin is forced toresort to extreme measures to keep the Soviet Union in World War II. Bythe end of the book, the Wehrmacht had run into a brick wall and theUSSR is ready to begin the long march to Berlin, which is a story foranother book by Beevor.
Resumos Relacionados
- Stalingrad
- Berlin 1945: The Fall
- Biography Of Adolf Hitler (read It)
- Berlin ? The Downfall 1945
- Stalingrad
|
|
