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Stalingrad de Antony Beevor

Stalingrad

Autor Antony Beevor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 oct 2007

Analiza noastră asupra acestui volum pornește de la secțiunile dedicate conceptului de „Rattenkrieg” și „Fortresses of Rubble and Iron”, unde Antony Beevor reconstruiește tactica brutală a luptelor de gherilă urbană. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în capacitatea autorului de a alterna între deciziile strategice de la nivelul înaltului comandament și realitatea viscerală a soldatului din prima linie, folosind mărturii care atestă limitele rezistenței umane în condiții extreme.

Subliniem rigoarea documentară a celor cinci părți ale cărții, care ghidează cititorul de la hubrisul inițial al lui Hitler din 1941 până la „Capcana lui Jukov” și capitularea finală din 1943. Reținem modul în care Beevor integrează efortul de război sovietic nu doar ca o reacție defensivă, ci ca o transformare radicală a artei militare sub presiunea supraviețuirii. Această ediție publicată de Penguin Books în colecția Penguin Classics reprezintă un standard pentru istoria narativă, reușind să explice eșecul Operațiunii Barbarossa prin prisma detaliului uman și logistic.

Lucrarea completează perspectiva strategică oferită de Victory at Stalingrad de Geoffrey Roberts, adăugând o dimensiune socială și psihologică pe care analizele pur militare tind să o omită. În contextul operei sale, Stalingrad se situează între cercetările despre războiul civil din The Battle for Spain și prăbușirea celui de-al Treilea Reich descrisă în Berlin. Dacă alte titluri similare, precum Stalingrad Battle Atlas, se concentrează pe cartografie și mișcări de trupe, Beevor reușește să ofere o viziune de ansamblu asupra colapsului ambițiilor teritoriale germane în Europa.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141032405
ISBN-10: 0141032405
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 130 x 190 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de istorie care dorește să înțeleagă nu doar cifrele, ci și psihologia din spatele celui mai important punct de cotitură al celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care logistica, eroarea umană și reziliența civilă au modelat soarta frontului de est. Este o lectură esențială pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor războiului total.

Despre autor

Sir Antony Beevor este un istoric militar britanic de renume, format la Sandhurst, a cărui carieră s-a concentrat pe marile conflicte ale secolului XX. Stilul său distinctiv combină rigoarea academică a cercetării de arhivă cu un talent narativ remarcabil, transformând documentele istorice în relatări vii. Pentru Stalingrad, a fost recompensat cu premii prestigioase precum Samuel Johnson și Wolfson Prize, consolidându-și statutul de cel mai important cronicar contemporan al celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial. Opera sa vastă include titluri fundamentale care analizează atât frontul de est, cât și campaniile din vest sau Războiul Civil Spaniol.

Notă biografică

Antony Beevor is the author of Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), Berlin: The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), The Second World War, Ardennes 1944 (Prix Médicis shortlist) and Arnhem. The number one bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold over eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017.

Recenzii

'Captivating . . . Jingoistic statues never pay a proper tribute to the dead, but honest books, like this one, certainly do'
Antony Beevor gained access to the unplumbed records, and he reveals the full awfulness and human cost of the conflict with scholarly verve and deep sympathy. The pity of war has seldom been rendered so well
A brilliantly researched tour de force of military history
Antony Beevor's account of this historic turning-point is truly powerful, written with a compelling narrative drive . . . This is a fine achievement
A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative techniques of a novelist . . . This is a book that lets the reader look into the face of battle

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The classic international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the second world war

In October 1942, a Panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'.

The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally destructive to both armies. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his decline.

An extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery and the nature of war itself, which changed how history is written, Stalingrad is a testament to the vital role of the Soviet war effort.



'A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative techniques of a novelist . . . This is a book that lets the reader look into the face of battle' Orlando Figes, Sunday Telegraph

'A brilliantly researched tour de force of military history' Sarah Bradford, The Times

Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.

Cuprins

Stalingrad List of Illustrations and Maps
Preface
Part One. 'The World Will Hold Its Breath'

1. The Double-Edged Sword of Barbarossa
2. 'Nothing is Impossible for the German Soldier!'
3. 'Smash in the Door and the Whole Rotten Structure Will Come Crashing Down!'
4. Hitler's Hubris: The Delayed Battle for Moscow

Part Two. Barbarossa Relaunched

5. General Paulus's First Battle
6. 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?'
7. 'Not One Step Backwards'
8. 'The Volga is Reached!'

Part Three. 'The Fateful City'

9. 'Time is Blood': The September Battles
10. Rattenkrieg
11. Traitors and Allies
12. Fortresses of Rubble and Iron
13. Paulus's Final Assault
14. 'All For the Front!'

Part Four. Zhukov's Trap

15. Operation Uranus
16. Hitler's Obsession
17. 'The Fortress Without a Roof'
18. 'Der Manstein Kommit!'
19. 'Christmas in the German Way'

Part Five. The Subjugation of the Sixth Army

20. The Air-Bridge
21. 'Surrender Out of the Question'
22. 'A German Field Marshall Does Not Commit Suicide with a Pair of Nail Scissors!'
23. 'Stop Dancing! Stalingrad Has Fallen'
24. The City of the Dead
25. The Sword of Stalingrad

Appendix A: German and Soviet Orders of Battle, 19 November 1942
Appendix B: The Statistical Debate: Sixth Army Strength in the Kessel
References
Source Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Extras

The silence that fell on 2 February in the ruined city felt eerie for those who had been used to destruction as a natural state. Grossman described mounds of rubble and bomb craters so deep that the low angled winter sunlight never seemed to reach the bottom, and 'railway tracks, where tanker wagons lie belly up, like dead horses.' Some 3,500 civilians were put to work as burial parties. They stacked frozen German corpses like piles of timber at the roadside, and although they had a few carts drawn by camels, most of the removal work was accomplished with improvised sleds and handcarts. The German dead were taken to bunkers, or the huge anti-tank ditch, dug the previous summer, and tipped in. Later, 1,200 German prisoners were put to work on the same task, using carts, with humans instead of horses pulling them. 'Almost all members of these work parties,' reported a prisoner of war, 'soon died of typhus.' Others, 'dozens each day' according to an NKVD officer in Beketovka camp - were shot on the way to work by their escorts.
The grisly evidence of the fighting did not disappear swiftly. After the Volga thawed in spring, lumps of coagulated blackened skin were found on the river bank. General de Gaulle, when he stopped in his Stalingrad on his way north to Moscow in December 1944, was struck to find that bodies were still being dug up, but this was to continue for several decades. Almost any building work in the city uncovered human remains from the battle.
More astonishing than the number of dead was the capacity for human survival. The Stalingrad Party Committee held meetings in all districts 'liberated from Fascist occupation', and rapidly organized a census. They found that at least 9,976 civilians had lived through the fighting, surviving in the battlefield ruins. They included 994 children, of whom only nine were reunited with their parents. The vast majority were sent off to state orphanages or given work clearing the city. The report says nothing of their physical or mental state, witnessed by an American aid worker, who arrived very soon after the fighting to distribute clothes. 'Most of the children', she wrote, 'had been living in the ground for four or five winter months. They were swollen with hunger. They cringed in corners, afraid to speak, to even look people in the face.'
The Stalingrad Party Committee had higher priorities. 'Soviet authorities were immediately reinstalled in all districts of the city', it reported to Moscow. On 4 February, Red Army Commissars held a political rally for 'the whole city', both civilian survivors and soldiers. This assembly, with its long speeches in praise of Comrade Stalin and his leadership of the Red Army, was the Party's version of a service of thanksgiving.
The authorities did not at first allow civilians who had escaped to the East Bank to return to their homes, because of the need to clear unexploded shells. Mine-clearance teams had to prepare a basic pattern of 'special safe paths'. But many soon managed to slip back over the frozen Volga without permission. Messages appeared chalked on the side of ruined buildings, testifying to the numbers of families broken up by the fighting: Mama, we are all right. Look for us in Beketovka. Klava.' Many people never discovered which of their relatives were alive or dead until after the war was over.

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This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II, conveying the experience of soldiers on both sides as they fought in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. of photos. National radio telephone tour.