- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
PublicAffairs
[2015]
- Language
- English
German - Main Author
- Other Authors
- ,
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Description
- "First published in Germany in 2012 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH"--Title page verso.
- Physical Description
- viii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-486) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781610394963
- Chapter 1. The Fateful Battle
- A City Under Siege
- Interpretations of the Battle
- Revolutionary Army
- Stalin's City
- Prewar Era
- Army and Party in War
- Commanders and Commissars
- Politics, Up Close
- The Hero Strategy
- Good and Bad Soldiers
- Forms of Combat
- People in War
- Historians of the Avant-Garde
- The Commission in Stalingrad
- The Transcripts
- Editorial Principles
- Chapter 2. A Chorus of Soldiers 3s
- The Fate of the City and Its Residents
- Agrafena Pozdnyakova
- Gurtyev's Rifle Division in Battle
- Vasily Grossman's "In the Line of the Main Drive"
- The Landing at Latoshinka
- The Capture of Field Marshal Paulus
- Chapter 3. Nine Accounts of the War
- General Vasily Chmkov
- Guards Division General Alexander Rodimtsev
- Nurse Vera Gurova
- A Lieutenant from Odessa: Alexander Averbukh
- Regimental Commander Alexander Gerasimov
- The History Instructor: Captain Nikolai Aksyonov
- Sniper Vasily Zaytsev
- A Simple Soldier: Alexander Parkhomenko
- Captain Pyotr Zayonchkovsky
- Chapter 4. The Germans Speak
- German Prisoners in February 1943
- A German Diary from the Kessel
- Chapter 5. War and Peace
- Illustration Credits
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index