i could sit here and quote a number of extracts from Antony Beevor book Stalingrad on things such as the battle for the grain silos, the soviet blocking detachments that waited at the landing area for anyone who decided to run, the numerous messages scrapped on walls by soviet soldiers of "farewell comrades we did not surrender", the shell shocked state of most german soldiers, the constant fights that ended usually in bayonets or entrenching tools being used at close quarters, the horrifying conditions for the germans once they were encircled of starvation, disease and the biting cold.
but i won't because its late now and i'm too lazy to go looking through the book for all the extracts and then painstakingly copying them out so instead i'll let these pictures speak for themselves and the veterans themselves tell the story.
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