Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
by William Craigliterary work· published 1973
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Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle of WWII, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It signaled the beginning of the end for the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler; it foretold the Russian juggernaut that would destroy Berlin and make the Soviet Union a superpower. As Winston Churchill characterized the result of the conflict at Stalingrad: " the hinge of fate had turned." William Craig, author and historian, has painstakingly recreated the details of this great battle: from the hot summer of August 1942, when the German armies smashed their way across southern Russia toward the Volga River, through the struggle for Stalingrad-a city Hitler had never meant to capture and Stalin never meant to defend-on to the destruction of the supposedly invincible German Sixth Army and the terror of…
Adaptations (1)
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad was adapted into a 2001 film.
Enemy at the Gates2001 · film · 131 min · dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · IMDb ↗A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
