I Fought at Stalingrad: Confessions of the Survivors

To the 75th anniversary of the start of the counteroffensive near Stalingrad! A tribute to the memory of those who carried out Stalin’s order “Not a step back!”, who stood firm under crushing enemy blows, who kept the vow “Beyond the Volga for us there is no land!” and accomplished the impossible—breaking the backbone of the “invincible” Wehrmacht, who survived “in the trenches of Stalingrad” in order to tell of the decisive battle of the Great Patriotic War. You will hear their living voices, their “truth from the trenches” in this book…

“A man in Stalingrad lived for a maximum of three days. I didn’t even have time to meet new tank crews as they were getting killed. And we, and the Germans, went completely out of our minds, as if both sides were fighting as suicides who wanted to get to the next world as quickly as possible…”