I am just really wanting to look more into this battle.

EDIT: Title change.

[ 18. December 2003, 07:27 PM: Message edited by: SGT Killjoy ]

Certainly Beevor's "Stalingrad" is in very high regard, but I think that Stephen Walsh's "Stalingrad: the infernal cauldron. 1942-1943" is much more analytical and concise.

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Yea, right now i am reading a Stalingrad book. Its the memoirs of a german soldier who fought in Stalingrad.

Another book about Stalingrad is called 'The War of The Rats'. I cant think of the author though.

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Antony Beevor's book is well worth the read, as is his Berlin book...

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I have a little pity with the crowd who only can read english, because real good books in english on Stalingrad are very rare.

I can think of at least a dozen EXCELLENT books dealing with the battle of Stalingrad, from a serious scientific and scholarly studies to accounts of those who survived.

All in German, of course.

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Anyone read Enemy at the Gate[the book]?How about Blood Red Snow? Reading Tank Rider now,story of Russian tankrider.About 3/4 way through and according to this guy the Germans gave almost no fight all the way to Germany. FramerT.

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Blood on the Snow is an excellent book. I am reading that right now as well. 'Von Paulus at Stalingrad' is a pretty good analysis of his involvement particularly with the battle.

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You can try John Erickson's 'The Road to Stalingrad' it is on amazon for £6.99

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Daniel,

From the very title of the book, it looses credibility for me...

Field marshal Friedrich Paulus was not a VON. He was the son of a school cashier. And if the book has some sort of biographical style, then one of the basic things of investigation is wrong... [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]

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I have a book about Stalingrad written by Heinz Schröter and it's called: Stalingrad... bis zur letzten patrone. Mr. Schröter was staff member of the 6th army. I have a dutch copy and don't know if it's available in english. The book is old, I think a fifties or sixties book.

Schroter's book was one of the very first 'Stalingrad' books to appear in English and is quite well-regarded.

It was published in hardback by Michael Joseph in 1958 and appeared as a Pan paperback in 1960.

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