Stalingrado

On September 1, 1942, the German army had completely surrounded Stalingrad, a city founded in the 16th century by Tsar Theodore I and which over time had become an important center of culture, trade and transit. Hitler's order was blunt: take Stalingrad at all costs and not give in under any circumstances. Stalin's was withering: "Not a single step back!" And order 227 of the regulations that it approved went in the same direction: to open fire against deserters without the need for a prior trial. These strict guidelines can give us an idea of ??what both armies were playing for, of the fury with which their leaders finalized every detail of the conflict. This magnificent book, written by great specialists in the Second World War, exposes all the details of what happened since that August 23, 1942 in which the battle began; it delves into the personality of its protagonists and the circumstances in which they were immersed; reveals the lines of force in combat; and studies the effects it had on the development of the war and its turn towards the triumph of the allies.