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Title: 199 Days : The Battle for Stalingrad by Edwin P. Hoyt ISBN: 0-312-86853-7 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING!
Comment: This book synthesizes all of the environmental factors of war: ruthless, motivated, and well-armed enemies bent on destroying one another; the physical environment, such as the bitter freezing cold, followed by the spring mud, the fear, the hunger, and the pain.
This book absolutely de-glorifies war, although it leaves you with respect for the incredible sacrifices and pain the induvidual soldiers had to endure. This book provides lucid, understandable operational and tactical details of Hitler's Barbarossa campaign and the Battle for Stalingrad. It also provides a pretty good leadership study of the German and Russian Generals.
I salute the brave Russian soldiers who defended their homeland! I also offer my respects to the teenage German soldiers who were swept into the jaws of Hell and didn't know any better.
Rating: 3
Summary: 199 Days a mediocre attempt to explain this battle
Comment: In August 1942, all that remained between the advancing Wehrmacht and Stalingrad were open Steppe. That soon changed, as one sees in 199 Days by Hoyt. He is clever enough to give a good background of the war in the east from June 41, through the winter and on. This helps to explain to the reader why the Germans made some decisions, and why the Soviets made some of theirs. The only problem with this book is the slightly "pro Soviet" stance. While I won't argue for the merits of Naziism (for there are none), I also will not argue for the merits of Stalinism. These were two armies, essentially the tools of two despots, a point which Hoyt does indeed make. Having said that, he seems to put a human face onto the Soviet soldier more so than the German soldier. The end is good, however, the follow up winter offensive by the Soviets could have been at least alluded to in the form of an epilogue (The Soviet offensive was pressed on, well beyond its supplies, and hundreds of thousands of Soviets were captured after the fall of Stalingrad, in the area of Kharkhov). Overall, not a bad book. If you know nothing of the east front, buy it. If you already consider yourself somewhat in the know concerning the eastern front, then save your money.
Rating: 3
Summary: Adequate intro to the topic, but NOT one of the best
Comment: Forget this book if you are a serious researcher or student of the Battle of Stalingrad. Get Joel Hayward's acclaimed "Stopped at Stalingrad" and Antony Beevor's great "Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege" instead. Also check out anything by David Glantz and John Erickson. Get THIS book maybe if you've never read anything on Stalingrad and want a clear and basically accurate introduction.
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Title: Stalingrad : The Infernal Cauldron, 1942-1943 by Stephen Walsh ISBN: 0312269439 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 03 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Forsaken Army: The Great Novel of Stalingrad by Heinrich Gerlach ISBN: 0304362786 Publisher: Cassell Academic Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle that Changed History by Geoffrey Roberts ISBN: 0582771854 Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: War of the Rats by David L. Robbins ISBN: 055358135X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments by Joachim Wieder, Heinrich Graf Von Einsiedel ISBN: 0304363383 Publisher: Cassell Academic Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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