In five parts, from the 21/06/41 barberousse the transaction (the world will hold its breath) and renewed in June 1942 (blue operation), we approach the battle of Stalingrad (This fatal city) itself to page 173, continued with the operation Uranus (the trap of Zhukov or isolation of the sixth German armed) that will take over.
All facets of the battles are evoked. From its origin to its effects (briefly mentioned) at the surrender in 1945, you will know all the ins and outs of this piece of history.
More than a conventional historical narrative, a real war novel where all viewpoints are discussed, the German and Russian staffs to simple soldiers dying of starvation in the rubble of Stalingrad.
Nearly 600 pages of almost continuous battle with her dead on each page, the book slips nor the abuses and war crimes on both sides, looting, summary executions, rape, cowardice terrible notion of Russian and executions mass, nor dissension breasts of the two armies.
Figures that make your head spin, giving full extent of the battle.
Through multiple and diverse sources (walking papers, minutes of interrogation, daumôniers reports, diaries, Russian and German archives) the author gives us a clear writing, even clear, and a nice progression of the action, Printing without repetition, a beautiful story that really reads like a novel.
Dante, titanic, exceptional.