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JpXvtFvzw The Forsaken Army: The Great Novel of Stalingrad 8F5RmQFlG (Cassell Military Paperbacks) FoOJot8lK XA-33016 TqhVblfRn US/Data/Literature-Fiction 3pJuetRvl 4/5 From 623 Reviews oljks4Uub Rf4inbIfp ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF XxLvBfAC4 uuuZyhD6H MxjzQlsG0 cJI6miMGM 4YwyHyLcs OoTMgzvgt AeSjOH3D2 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy GabrielThis is an GckH62x5L excellent book about WW II on the Russian front.0 of 0 people found the nYlLxUFXw following review helpful. Great HistoryBy Kenneth A. HareHistory the way I UyCqLRcLr like it. How the people involved had to survive, or not.0 of 0 people found the n8eiXoBUJ following review helpful. Superb novel on the tragedy of Stalingrad, with many hSyxRQeYP insights and a fascinating plot...By DimitriosThis is one of the best novels about nsKWJG5ts the Stalingrad epic battle (compared perhaps to Theodore Plevier's magnificent rHyRygJuw trilogy about , Stalingrad and Berlin), all the more because it was ZPHmLrnhb written by someone who was actually there and lived through that brutal YlnfQW8HI struggle on the banks of the Volga. Although it requires some knowledge on the qfkoXcIZB part of the reader regarding the general situation on the Eastern Front in 1942, YzGO0IPYH and it doesn't avoid some cliches, it is written superbly, with a fascinating plot, j3rQIQ5yi well developed characters and very realistic dialogues and descriptions. I will oFypTQMub not go into details about the fate of the main characters but I can say what 4e0Qv1Qvr really impressed my and make this book worth reading even by those who already know a lot about Stalingrad. First of all, it was quite revealing about how the Germans underestimated the Soviet strength in the months and weeks prior to the great Red Army offensive of November 19, 1942. Second, the characters find their fate in very unpredictable and tragic ways, just as it must have happened in reality. The action moves easily from the snow covered steppes between Stalingrad and the Don river, to Hitler's HQ and the HQ in order to complete the puzzle of the great tragedy. The mentality of the German army of the era is very well presented, as are the catastrophic consequences of Hitler's and Goering's decision to keep the trapped 6th Army in the ruins of Stalingrad instead of ordering it to break out as soon as possible. This is a trully remarkabe book and I strongly recommend it!A wonderful excerpt from the book. Two German Intelligence officers trapped in the Stalingrad pocket, are discussing about Hitler's war in Russia and make some astonishing remarks: "Now Engelhard was speaking again, louder than before and excitedly. He spoke of the building of a new and better order in and in Europe, of a union of peoples and of social justice, of the new faith of the German people and of the progress they had made in recent years. And from it all he inferred that Hitler was moved in all he did by a single principle - the welfare of his people - and he felt that Hitler wouldn't risk the destruction of all he had built unless driven to it by the direst necessity... "Christmas make you sentimental, Engelhard. Don't talk to me about socialism. Do you seriously believe that Hitler's a socialist? Do you think he cares a damn if this man has enough potatoes or that man is paid extra for working overtime? The people need an idol made in their own image. They'd me horrified if they could see the reality behind the facade, the real Hitler. But we've got to see the truth. It'll give us strength to follow the right course. Hitler serves no cause and no persons. He carries within himself the purpose of his existence. He isn't a man in the accepted sense of the word but a solitary Titan, beyond good and evil, beyond love and hate. Hitler is the pure incarnation of the Will to Power. Two or three times I've seen this aspect of him at quite private conferences at which there was no public to tempt him to act. It was a fascinating experience. Don't look at me like that, Engelhard. Get it into your head that Hitler is capable of smashing the world to pieces"".

On November 22, 1942, Russian forces closed around the 270,000 German soldiers who had come to take Stalingrad. Only a handful of these men ever returned to Germany: Heinrich Gerlach was one of them, and he determined to spend the rest of his life telling the world how his fellow soldiers had been sacrificed to Hitler's megalomania. Though a novel, every episode, every character, every detail of description is thoroughly authentic.