... campaign,” writes the author, “before it had carried the enemy . . .to the gates of Stalingrad would have seemed as unnatural as to have included the Battle of Stalingrad, which has a unity of its own that belongs to a later period.” The chapter on Rommel’s ...

... August 26, when the battle for Stalingrad was in its fiercest phase, the Russian communique disclosed that over the past fifteen days General Zhukov had launched an offensive west of Moscow, probably to relieve the strain on Stalingrad, 800 miles to the ...

... concentrated on the immensity and fury of the battle for Stalingrad Now, though their progress in the meanwhile has been matter of hundreds of yards, they more often suggest that the task is over, and that Stalingrad has lost its importance because the Volga ...

... the journalists than Alexander W’erth’s The Year of Stalingrad (Hamish Hamilton ; 155.). This well-known correspondent believes that the period under review was the year in which Russia fought her Battle for Survival and won it. Psychologically, he says ...