Stalingrad
A narrative history of the decisive battle of World War II. In June 1941 Hitler overruled the advice of his general staff and ordered the German army to invade the Soviet Union. After meeting with phenomenal early success--which brought them within 25 miles of Moscow by the summer of 1942--the German forces became bogged down in an extended siege of the Russian city of Stalingrad. Stalling for time, the Russians held out through the winter. The heavy snow cut off the German lines of supply, and more than half of the German forces succumbed to starvation and the elements before finally retreating months later.

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