Stalingrad

[sasguru]

[QUOTE=DS23]

The city came before the book.

HTH
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really? my goodness and there was me thinking it was a work of fiction.

TFYH

TIC.
HTH.

[AtW]

PPS ATW Why is it a bad book? I thought it was alright.

The book was written in a language typical for a soviet suck-up rather than objective writer: if you look at how Manstein wrote his work you will see that he very rarely, if at all, uses absolutes - lots of words: probably, likely etc: now that's objective approach even though he was in a very biased position, yet he wrote in a very good unbiased way showing that he really was a professional of the highest order.

Beevor's fall of Berlin has got same problems - compare it for example to Liddle Hart's (spell?) book on World War 2 - now that's excellent work that does not suck up to either side, only pity that it mainly focussed on Allied operations, I wish someone of his quality could have written work on Ost Front's operations, sadly even if he was alive this would not be possible because Soviet/Russian military historians primarily serve the interests of the State to show their side in the best light by falsifying history.