Breakout At Stalingrad

Heinrich Gerlach Apollo €30.15

The battle of Stalingrad is synonymous with the end of the Nazis’ eastern ambitions, as the Wehrmacht capitulated on the banks of the Volga, leaving more than 200,000 of their soldiers dead in a frozen landscape. Heinrich Gerlach was among the wounded and his truly magnificent novel, written in captivity and only recently exhumed from the Russian archives, is a devastating account of the appalling privations suffered by the German army, left to their fate by the foundering, over-stretched Fatherland. A masterpiece.