Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. Anderson and the recipient of Newbery Honor for Breaking Stalin’s Nose. Yelchin is a National Book Award finalist for The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge co-authored with M. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable. Eugene Yelchin is a Russian-American artist best known as an illustrator and writer of books for children and young adults. Antony Beevor has itnerviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem.
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