How much can a people, or people, suffer? By reading Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor, you find out a great deal. How could an event like the Battle of Stalingrad occur? Beevor will take you through it. You realize, on reading this book, that Hitler and Stalin, may their names be blotted out, fought at Stalingrad not for any logical or strategic reason. It was pure ego. And just as when the Japanese lost the Battle of Midway, and thereby lost the war, so too did Germany lose the war when they lost Stalingrad. More people would suffer and die, but the tide had turned away from Germany.
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