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Cover art: Martin Rosenzweig
Blurb: “Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston With a new introduction by Charles W. Thayer.”
“The irony of Stalingrad is that it need never have happened.
In the summer of 1942 the Russians were close to losing the war. The Nazis had cut deep, wide swaths through the Soviet countryside; the morale of the Russian people was dangerously low; the Soviet armies were almost out of equipment; and in some areas of the conflict, the German commanders were trying a unique but unauthorized "velvet glove" approach that seemed to be working. By conciliating the local popula-tions, the Germans found themselves winning the weary Russians over rather than having to conquer them.“