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Stalingrad was published in the Philippines under the title of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–43, and has been translated into 18 languages. The English paperback version was published by Penguin Books in 1999. Antony Beevor, Stalingrad - Viking 1998 - ISBN 0-14-024985-0 (Paperback) and ISBN 0-670-87095-1 (Hardcover)
Stalingrad, as translated into English by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, tried to include to provide a comprehensive version Grossman's texts. The Chandlers' editing rules were based on trying to surmise Grossman's wishes seeking to include any text that Grossman "liked", even if it was on a topic that was forced on him by outside forces.
Theodor Otto Richard Plievier (Plivier, until 1933) (12 February 1892, Berlin – 12 March 1955, Avegno, Switzerland) was a German writer best known for his 1948 anti-war novel Stalingrad . During World War I, he served on the SMS Wolf.
In 1925, the name of the city was even changed to "Stalingrad". [8] A little over two decades later the city would once again be a battlefield, this time for the decisive battle of the Eastern Front of World War II: the Battle of Stalingrad. In 1961, the city was renamed Volgograd by Nikita Khrushchev during his de-Stalinization campaign.
The events of the Battle for Stalingrad have been covered in numerous media works of British, American, German, and Russian origin, [346] for its significance as a turning point in the Second World War and for the loss of life associated with the battle. Stalingrad has become synonymous with large-scale urban battles with immense casualties on ...
Pavlov's House (Russian: дом Павлова tr. Dom Pavlova) was an apartment building converted into a fortified position, which Red Army defenders held for around 60 days against the Wehrmacht offensive during the Battle of Stalingrad. The siege lasted from 27 September to 25 November 1942 and eventually the Red Army managed to relieve it ...
Stalingrad is a strategic-level board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1963 that simulates the first 24 months of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. As one of the first board wargames (and the first one about the Eastern Front ) it was extensively played and discussed during the early years of the wargaming hobby.
Operation Koltso (Operation Ring) was the last part of the Battle of Stalingrad. It resulted in the capitulation of the remaining Axis forces encircled in the city. The operation was likely the largest-scale economy-of-force offensive ever conducted in military history. [5]