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Title: Makes the idea of hell look like a five star resort
Review: This book is written with a journalistic approach. That is, the author -thank God - is not interest in proving any historical theory or promoting an ideological agenda. He just was the reader to feel and vividly imaging the pandemonium that more than a million persons live in the battle of Stalingrad. This is done not just by means a perfect description of the tactical decision taken by the field commanders and headquarters of both armies, but also by using hundred of first hand accounts of the combatants, with an acute description of their fears, wounds, hate and delusions. No page in this book will left you unshaken. No silly patriotism, or self aggrandizing feast are poured onto the reader, on the contrary it achieves a fantastic balance featuring both sides of the conflict, while showing the folly of war. Maybe the best work about WWII that I have ever read.
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