Antony Beevor tells the story of the people of Stalingrad - the soldiers and the civilian population. He is not interested in strategies and the craft of war, but in feelings, fates, the last traces of those damned who perished in the mud, ice and hail of bullets. The author uses previously inaccessible sources: Reports of desertions and executions, intercepted German documents, interrogation protocols, diaries and letters that never arrived. The result is a harrowing memoir that has been praised worldwide as a significant anti-war document.
