Once again, Antony Beevor does not disappoint. After devoting a good many hours to Vasily Grossman's fictional Stalingrad and Life and Fate, it was fitting to round out my reading with Beevor's fascinating work. As in his recent The Battle of Arnhem, Beevor beautifully weaves a mountain of research with first-person accounts from both sides of the conflict to create a view of this decisive battle that is both panoramic and minutely detailed. Perhaps not surprisingly, Grossman's journalism was an important source for Beevor.
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