Tuesday 18 October 2011

Book learning #71 Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor

Unputdownable.
Frozen, vast, incomprehensible.

I had seen the films and the maps, the furthest most reach of the Germans.

The pace of this picked up once it was clear the Germans were defeated. I found the final 100 pages absolutely fascinating, I loved reading the details of the collapse and surrender of the 6th Army.