Theodor Plievier
Kindle Edition | Pages: 142 pages Rating: 3.94 | 194 Users | 28 Reviews
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| Title | : | Stalingrad |
| Author | : | Theodor Plievier |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 142 pages |
| Published | : | A WWII Reading List 508 books — 346 voters World War II Fiction & Non-fiction 505 books — 315 voters |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Fiction. World War II. Cultural. Russia |
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Anyone who has read the histories and memoirs of the fighting on the Eastern Front, especially Stalingrad, will not find anything new in Plievier's book yet it still manages to capture that descent into Hell that was the common experience for the soldiers of this, the greatest battle of the Second World War. The book was written in 1948 and that immediately makes it stand out as a forerunner of gritty, down-to-earth literary depictions of the horrors of war. There were many occasions when I had to pinch myself to remind myself that this was a work of fiction and not a historical memoir. Pleivier was able to carry out first-hand research and visit the battlefield whilst it still held its horrors frozen in its jaws. So often I could visualise the brutality and discomfort, the cold and hunger, the loss of hope and appalling loss of life. There are images here that would be worthy of a modern-day Dante.The book does have its flaws (if that is the correct term to use). There are times when it does read like the script to a propaganda movie where the hero argues about the futility and immorality of it all against hardened Nazis. The fanatical resistance offered by the Germans is depicted as the consequence of indecision and omission on the part of the military leadership in order to further stress the betrayal of the ordinary soldier by a corrupt elite. I am overemphasising the flaws. Overall this is a powerful read made more dramatic by the howling blizzard blowing outside and the bone-chilling cold assaulting me in this, the coldest March we've had in 50 years.
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| Original Title: | Stalingrad. |
| ISBN: | 346203054X (ISBN13: 9783462030549) |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 194 Users | 28 ReviewsNotice About Books Stalingrad
Anyone who has read the histories and memoirs of the fighting on the Eastern Front, especially Stalingrad, will not find anything new in Plievier's book yet it still manages to capture that descent into Hell that was the common experience for the soldiers of this, the greatest battle of the Second World War. The book was written in 1948 and that immediately makes it stand out as a forerunner of gritty, down-to-earth literary depictions of the horrors of war. There were many occasions when I had
Anyone who has read the histories and memoirs of the fighting on the Eastern Front, especially Stalingrad, will not find anything new in Plievier's book yet it still manages to capture that descent into Hell that was the common experience for the soldiers of this, the greatest battle of the Second World War. The book was written in 1948 and that immediately makes it stand out as a forerunner of gritty, down-to-earth literary depictions of the horrors of war. There were many occasions when I had
The Battle of Stalingrad, August 23, 1942 to February 2, 1943, between the one million man German army and the million and a half man Soviet army was the largest armed confrontation in world history. At a cost of half a million dead and many more wounded, the Soviets defeated the Germans, who lost an entire army and some twenty squadrons of air-craft. The reputation of Nazi invincibility had been broken, sixteen months prior to D-Day (June 1944,) the Allies victory in North Africa by four
War is a bummer. It's a bummer for everyone involved. But in the case of this book it was really a bummer for the German army that had to go try and conquer Russia in the winter. They got trapped and cut off. So they end up starving and shooting themselves and it just sucks. It's important to note that the characters in this story aren't nazis. The nazis are their bosses and their bosses are insane. So there's a degree of empathy that one can have for these poor fucks without compromising ones
This book is among my top 10 books of all times. It is brilliant. Very impressive story line, strong feeling of reality and historically accurate.
The darkest, most horrifyingly depressing read you could possibly imagine. An anti war book like no other, you won't enjoy a second of it, but you'll remember all of it.
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