Calzean's Reviews > Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

Written in the early 70s, the author had the opportunity to interview survivors from the Russian forces, local civilians, German soldiers and a couple of Italians. Coupled with access to the war records available at the time this is a terribly fascinating military history study. The book is sensibly divided into two halves - the Battle for Stalingrad followed by the Russian pincer movement and entrapment of the German Sixth Army. The battle descriptions ranged from broad summaries of troop movements to individual accounts of brutal deaths in brutal conditions. Not for the faint hearted.
There's plenty of analysis into the actions of Stalin, Hitler and their Generals. But the highlights are the individual letters and recollections of the people who survived this maelstrom.