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Summary
The definitive English-language account of the battle that turned World War II in Europe. Beevor traces both the strategic decisions of Hitler and Stalin and the street-level experience of Soviet defenders and German attackers as the Wehrmacht's Sixth Army was surrounded, starved, and destroyed in the ruins of the city that bore Stalin's name. Drawing on newly opened archives after the Soviet collapse, it combines military history with the testimony of soldiers and civilians who endured the worst urban combat of the twentieth century.