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Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
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An entirely sobering account of the epochal battle of Stalingrad. The ruthlessness and inhumanity of war is nakedly exposed. Corpses abound – towards the end rotting bodies are stacked up in makeshift German hospitals.
Stalingrad is what can happen to invaders. Although one feels sympathy for the Germans in reading their letters home to their wives and parents – there is no introspection in these letters of the reasons of why they were so far from their homeland. When one seeks to destroy a city (and in the case of Russia this amounted to many cities) there will eventually be a terrible price to pay.
In the “World at War” documentary episode on Stalingrad a Russian comments: “These German soldiers are a funny lot with their shiny black boots attacking Stalingrad – did they think they were on a joy-ride?”
This book should be viewed as manifesting the ultimate evil and destructiveness of war – millions paid a horrible price.
Stalingrad is what can happen to invaders. Although one feels sympathy for the Germans in reading their letters home to their wives and parents – there is no introspection in these letters of the reasons of why they were so far from their homeland. When one seeks to destroy a city (and in the case of Russia this amounted to many cities) there will eventually be a terrible price to pay.
In the “World at War” documentary episode on Stalingrad a Russian comments: “These German soldiers are a funny lot with their shiny black boots attacking Stalingrad – did they think they were on a joy-ride?”
This book should be viewed as manifesting the ultimate evil and destructiveness of war – millions paid a horrible price.
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
October 1, 2008
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Finished Reading
November 9, 2012
– Shelved
