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  Stalingrad

  The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

  by Antony Beevor

  This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold... (more)
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  Life and Fate

  by Vasily Grossman

  Suppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union. On its completion in 1960, Life and Fate was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman’s characters... (more)
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  War of the Rats

  by David L. Robbins

  For six months in 1942, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies--the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history of warfare. The outcome is pivotal. If Hitler's forces are not stopped, Russia will fall. And with it, the world.... German soldiers call the battle Rattenkrieg, War of the Rats . The combat is horrific, as soldiers die in the smoking cellars and... (more)
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  The Sniper

  by James Riordan

  Stalingrad snipers were legends in their time. Their patience, keen eyes, and ruthlessness helped win the Battle of Stalingrad and turn the tide of the Second World War. James Riordan visited Stalingrad in 1959 and several times later. In 2006 he met Tania Chernova, whose story was so fascinating that Riordan made her the heroine of this compelling novel. The year is 1942. Legendary sniper Vasily Zaitsev, who... (more)
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  A Writer at War

  Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945

  by Antony Beevor, Vasily Grossman

  Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before published in English, from one of the great Russian writers of the 20th century – a vivid eyewitness account of the Eastern Front and “the ruthless truth of war.” When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for... (more)
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  Hitler and Stalin

  Parallel Lives

  by Alan Bullock

  Forty years after his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the Nazi era, Lord Alan Bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished dual biography that places Adolf Hitler's origins, personality, career, and legacy alongside those of Joseph Stalin--his implacable antagonist and moral mirror image.
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  Enemy At The Gates, The Battle for Stalingrad

  by William Craig

  Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee.
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  Carl Faberge: Goldsmith To The Imperial Court Of Russia

  by A. Kenneth Snowman

  New York Greenwich House 1983 Hard Cover 185 Color & b/w Photographs Near Fine in J Very Good + jacket 4to-over 9¾"-12" Tall 160 pages. Notable for over 100 color photographs of the famed eggs and other objects of the noted goldsmith's art. Originally published in Great Britain in 1979. Features 185 photographs including more than 100 in full color. Appendix section includes Select Bibliography and... (more)
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  Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments

  by Joachim Wieder

  Originally written over 30 years ago by a historian who was also a participant, this analysis of the Nazis' ill-fated attempt to take Stalingrad now features revisions by the author. Much more than a routine account of a battle, Stalingrad presents a stunning review of the motivations, misplaced principles, and misguided claims that led to what is considered Hitler's deadliest misstep.
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  The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

  A History of Nazi Germany

  by William L. Shirer

  Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of this century's blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of... (more)
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  Europe Central

  by William T. Vollmann

  In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century. Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional—a young German who joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals who collaborate with... (more)
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  Piddler on the Hoof

  by S.I. Fishgal

  A towering French dame totally ignores the law and environment, cheerfully smokes the sky and personifies the USA. A little Belgian schmendrick holds the same disregard, joyfully piddles the downtown and personifies the European Union. This novel's piddler personifies nobody and tactfully says nothing about Brussels' pee drinkers. History knows no shortest, most horrible and intense schlock than the Kursk Battle... (more)
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  Ot Stalingrada do Dnepra. (English)

  by Mansur Abdulin

  Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story. His vivid inside view of a ruthless war on the Eastern Front gives a rare insight into the reality of the fighting and into the tactics and mentality of the Red Army's soldiers. In his own words, and with a remarkable clarity of... (more)
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  The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968

  by William Manchester, MANCHASTER WILLIAM

  A masterwork of history-restored to print and made available for the first time in trade paperback. In this massive, compellingly readable book, America's preeminent biographer/historian brings to life Europe's richest, most powerful family, a 400-year dynasty that developed the world's most technologically advanced weapons (from cannons to submarines to anti-aircraft guns); provided arms to generations of German... (more)
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  Stalingrad

  by Theodor Plievier