(07-02-2013, 01:48 AM)Outlaw Josey Wales Wrote: Remember though, Enemy at the Gates was centered around the Russian sniper rather than the battle as a whole.
The 1973 book is a great read!
"Ideals are peaceful. History is violent."
07-02-2013, 04:24 AM, (This post was last modified: 07-02-2013, 04:25 AM by TheBigRedOne.)
(07-02-2013, 01:48 AM)Outlaw Josey Wales Wrote: Remember though, Enemy at the Gates was centered around the Russian sniper rather than the battle as a whole.
The 1973 book is a great read!
Yes, it is! The best book I have ever read though, is Hell in a Very Small Place about Dien Bien Phu and not far behind that is A Time for Trumpets about the Bulge.
Best book I've read on Stalingrad is Island of Fire by Jason D Mark. A great memoir is Forsaken Army by H Gerlach and best novel Stalingrad by T Plievier.
I prefer the German Stalingrad film (the dubbed version is ruined by awful dubbing, must be watched in the German language with Subs) over Enemy at the Gates which I hated however the book is a good read..
other books worth a mention are..
Stalingrad Memories and reassessments by J Wieder and Glantz first two books of a trilogy, rather dry reading though. Also Croatian Legion by Jason Mark and Death of a Leaping Horseman. Infact Leaping Horseman publishers have several great reads on Stalingrad.