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The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. Yet Stalingrad never fell. After months of bitter fighting, 100,000 surviving Germans, huddled in the ruined city, surrendered to Soviet troops. During the battle and shortly after its conclusion, scores of Red Army commanders and soldiers, party officials and workers spoke with a team of historians who visited from Moscow to record their conversations. The tapestry of their voices provides groundbreaking insights into the thoughts and feelings of Soviet citizens during wartime. Legendary sniper Vasily Zaytsev recounted the horrors he witnessed at Stalingrad:'You see young girls, children hanging from trees in the park.[...] That has a tremendous impact.'Nurse Vera Gurova attended hundreds of wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital every day, but she couldn't forget one young amputee who begged her to avenge his suffering.'Every soldier and officer in Stalingrad was itching to kill as many Germans as possible,'said Major Nikolai Aksyonov. These testimonials were so harrowing and candid that the Kremlin forbade their publication, an

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Author

Jochen Hellbeck

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781610394970

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (149 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14