What can you write to describe this battle? It’s Stalingrad. It’s a scar on all ethics – all morality – all outlooks that men are basically good. Were men good when they massacred each other, starved each other, shot and stabbed and exploded one another at Stalingrad? Homo homini lupus – Man is a wolf to Man, according to Hobbes. This is the story of wolves shaped like men. This is Stalingrad.
The beer this episode is Bitburger – 4 bullets out of 5.
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References:
Enemy at the Gates by William Craig
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen G. Fritz
The West Point Military Atlas of Modern War edited by Thomas E. Griess
The West Point Military History of The Second World War edited by Thomas E. Griess
The Second World War by John Keegan
Diary of a German Soldier by William Hoffman
A Soviet Veteran Recalls by Anton Kuzmich Dragan
Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army by Hans Wijers
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
Stalin: A Political Biography by Isaac Deutscher
Hitler by John Toland
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Atlas of the Second World by John Keegan
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