![]() ![]() Reading the books back to back was engrossing. ![]() In the last couple of months I’ve immersed myself in Vasily Grossman’s two-volume epic about Stalingrad - For a Just Cause (1952) published in English in 2019 as Stalingrad and the sequel Life and Fate (1960), which has long been famous in the West as an account of the war that the Soviet censors tried to suppress. It was the end of the last major German offensive on the Eastern Front, a turning point in the war and, thus, in world history. ![]() It cost the Red Army, the Wehrmacht and its allies, the Italian, Romanian and Hungarian forces, a combined total of c 2.5 million casualties, over 1 million of them KIA. The battle of Stalingrad raged between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943 when the last of the German 6th Army surrendered. This newsletter is strong stuff, more Wages of Destruction than regular Chartbook fare. ![]()
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