Stalingrad

the long version

"The Soviet victory over the Germans at Stalingrad was decisive for the war on the Eastern Front and for the Second World War as a whole, and the story of the long, bitter battle on the banks of the Volga has fascinated historians ever since. While it has been the subject of countless histories, memoirs, and eyewitness accounts, the gruelling reality of battle on the ground, in the shattered streets and buildings of the city, has rarely been recorded photographically ... Nik Cornish's selection of ... images ... document every aspect of the fighting and give us glimpses of the lives and deaths of soldiers on both sides"--Page 4 of cover.