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Narrated by:
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Peter Noble
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Antony Beevor
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Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Stalingrad by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Nobel.
Antony Beevor's Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments.
In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote, 'Stalingrad is no longer a town.... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.'
The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally destructive to both armies. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe and the start of his decline.
Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.
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- aidan
- 19-07-2017
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Read it up yo! Is v good. War ,cannibals ,snow! It has all the things !!
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- Grzybo
- 30-03-2018
Stalingrad and more
A detailed description of events before, during and after the battle of Stalingrad. It is enriched with sections from personal journals and letters. A must-read/listen for everyone interested in WWII Eastern front history.
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- Mitchell Arthur
- 14-07-2024
Excellent production, very accessible for people first trying out war related non fiction
If you haven’t read any war related books listen to world war 2 by beevor first then this one. Written in a way that you would almost believe it is fiction, but horrifyingly isn’t. I’m sure the comments are filled with ‘partisan this partisan that’ but fundamentally this is an excellent book which gives an insight into the horror and complete lack of regard for human life demonstrated by a collection of the worst examples humanity has had to offer
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- Anonymous User
- 26-05-2021
best ww2 book!!
not only it this one of the best ww2 books I've ever listened to in terms of quality of story and making you really feel it, the narrator was just excellent, best narrator I've ever heard yet.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-04-2021
Hard-core Bevor at its best
Another book by Beever on the horrific, gut wrenching darkness of WW2. This book, focusing on Stalingrad, delves into the "Eastern Front" with first hand accounts and other evidence to show the true depths of depravity that humans can fall too. It also tells of the resilience of the human spirit in the most horrific and tragic of circumstances. A great listen, if you can stomach it. You should. The stories need to be told and remembered.
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- Thomas
- 11-07-2018
Peter Noble got the best voice!
This book is superb! Except for a few parts where it is just a bit too brutal for my taste.
Overall solid work. Read this along with Stalingrad by David Glantz to get perfect micro and macro perspectives of the entire siege!
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- Anonymous User
- 01-02-2021
A vivid retelling of one of history’s most epic battle
Antony Beever meticulously deconstructs one of the greatest military defeats in modern history. With first hand accounts and a fastidious attention to detail, Beever brings the horrors of this famous battle to life, and perfectly sums up it’s importance.
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- Sam Rayner
- 07-07-2023
Brilliant!
Absolutely harrowing stuff. Read this years ago as a teenager and it’s great returning to it now.
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- Kiel
- 10-08-2017
Haunting and Sublime
A brilliant, crisp, and evocative presentation of a piece of riveting yet meticulous history. Essential listening.
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- Woolfe
- 18-05-2021
Total War
Superb research and telling of a total battle.
The battle brought to life with factual unemotional writing leaving the listener to imagine the horrors and heroism of the battle and its terrible aftermath that lasted for over a decade for those Germans that survived.
Great narration with impeccable (i assume) pronunciation.
I was going to download another of Mr Beevors books straight away however will need to listen to something lighter as Stalingrad leaves you drained with a lot to think about. Awesome, horrific but with snippets of humanity.
Only small criticism is that some maps would be great!
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