'The Stalingrad story is biblical in its extremes of barbarism and heroism, and Antony Beevor has told it superbly' - Literary Review '[Stalingrad] illuminates so pitilessly, and yet with a reassuring glow of humanity, the bitterest and most cruel of all 20th-century battles' - Alan Clark 'Read Beevor first as a compelling tale of human tribulation' - Evening Standard