Stalingrad – Antony Beevor Fabrieksprijs

This is a timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote “Stalingrad is no longer a town…Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure”. The battle became the focus of Hitler and Stalin’s determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand to hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally dest…