Describes the Battle of Stalingrad, focusing on the reminiscences of former German soldiers, many of whom had been taken as prisoners of war by the Red Army

In the closing months of 1942, only a few yards of bitterly contested ground stood between Hitler and the prize which he valued above all others: Stalingrad, the city on the Volga which carried the name of his greatest enemy. The terrible ferocity of the fighting in the ruined city plumbed the depths of human suffering the iron grip of a Russian winter. After the battle the wretched survivors of a beaten German army emerged from their hiding places and surrendered to the Red army.—salinapubliclibrary