Stalingrad: A City in Hell: The 200 Days that Doomed the Third Reich

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In the bleak, rubble-strewn streets of Stalingrad, the fates of World War II's greatest forces converged in a hurricane of bloodshed, courage and ideological fervor unparalleled in modern history. For 200 hellish days and nights through the winter of 1942-43, Nazi Germany's seemingly unstoppable juggernaut slammed against Stalinist Russia's defiant stand in this city bearing the Soviet leader's name."Stalingrad: A City in Hell" brings to visceral life this pivotal World War II battle that bled the German war machine and disabused the world of its criminal leader's aura of invincibility. Through the firsthand accounts of soldiers and civilians from both sides, this unflinching chronicle depicts the incessant bombardment, street combat and unimaginable human suffering caused by Hitler and Stalin's ruthlessly waging of ideological total war.See the once-mighty German 6th Army become slowly enveloped in the fatalistic vise of hunger, frostbite and Soviet manpower summoned from across the ends of Russia itself. Feel both the Nazi arrogance toward "subhuman" Russian soldiers as well as the fanatical defense of the city's rubble by the defenders.From the highest commands of Hitler, Stalin and their generals to the brutal desperation of the men on the front lines, "A City in Hell" reveals the full panorama of what can be considered the single most important battle of not just World War II, but the 20th century itself. The epochal fight for the"Hölle von Stalingrad" scarred the Soviet and German nations to their cores and forever extinguished Hitler's delusions of Aryan supremacy.No cataclysmic clash of arms shattered the immortal legends and dogma of Nazi fascism quite like the slow, inevitable attrition of Stalingrad. This is the unforgettable and harrowing story of how Soviet blood and perseverance prevailed in a city turned to an apocalyptic hell on earth that changed the course of World War II.