One Is Not Born a Soldier
29 hrs. 51 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Konstantin Simonov
Author
Konstantin Simonov
Narrator
Alexander Bordukov
Narrator
Alexander Bordukov
The events of the second book of K. Simonov’s trilogy "Living and Dead" unfold in the winter of 1943—during the preparation and conduct of the Battle of Stalingrad, which became a turning point not only in the history of the Great Patriotic War, but in the entire Second World War.
The commanders of the regiments drove away after New Year’s meeting with the divisional commander. Silence hung in the air; the tundra wind only barely rustled. The Volga was invisible from here—it lay in ice, far, far away beyond the left flank of the front. Ahead was Stalingrad—not yet taken to the end by the Germans, and now six weeks surrounded by us. There, in the icy trap, occupying a circular defense along the entire enormous ring of two hundred kilometers, sat the Germans—twenty-two divisions—sitting and waiting! Waiting for both our assault and the relief and the order to break through, and for miracles and death—everything together...
The commanders of the regiments drove away after New Year’s meeting with the divisional commander. Silence hung in the air; the tundra wind only barely rustled. The Volga was invisible from here—it lay in ice, far, far away beyond the left flank of the front. Ahead was Stalingrad—not yet taken to the end by the Germans, and now six weeks surrounded by us. There, in the icy trap, occupying a circular defense along the entire enormous ring of two hundred kilometers, sat the Germans—twenty-two divisions—sitting and waiting! Waiting for both our assault and the relief and the order to break through, and for miracles and death—everything together...
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