Got the book and read some 70 pages "deep" into the book. I always love the soldiers´comments on warfare so it´s been great "fun" reading the book.

We have had this discussion about the importance of certain cities if they should be conquered.( Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad )

On p 7 in the introduction I found this

In private Chuikov would say simply:

"....If the Germans had wiped us out and crossed the Volga everything would have been different. The psychological effect of capturing Stalingrad would have been enormous.The counter-offensive would not(!) have worked."

Doesn´t this mean that Chuikov was saying that by taking Stalingrad early on the Red Army would have been beaten and Hitler would have won...?!!

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