And still, after all those books and text, you managed to add unrealistic elements into game. Im sorry but this is my opinion, deal with it.
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Stalingrad Reading
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Alan - Are you much of the reader or what?
You don't think he actually READS all this?! - that's not what being a collector is about
Debatable how well-informed though; he has lots of facts; but also several unsupported statements that reflect a particular 'slant' to his work.
That book is good, but it has that feeling of biased thinking that substracts credibility
Dietrich Graf
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"Antony James Beevor, FRSL (born 14 December 1946) is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous military historian John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission. He has published several popular histories on World War II and the 20th century in general."
Now post your resume.
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As they are already mentioned in the first post, these are for sure great reads.
Bastable, Jonathan, Voices from Stalingrad, David & Charles Books, 2006-
Great read with stories and quotes from soldiers. It tell in detail about fights
and attacks for specific buildings and areas.
Gerlach, Heinrich, The Forsaken Army, Cassell, 2002-
Let you feel the desperate situation for the Germans in the Cauldron.
Grossman, Vasily, Life and Fate, Harper & Row, 1980 -
For sure a long read. The Stalingrad part tells a bout a surrounded appartment block.
This is not specific Stalingrad but a good read.
Grossman , Vasily, A writer at war, The Harvill press 2005 -
A book with notes made by Grossman. It covers the entire
war. From Barbarossa to Berlin.His description of Treblinka is a must read.
Bastable, Jonathan, Voices from Stalingrad, David & Charles Books, 2006-
Great read with stories and quotes from soldiers. It tell in detail about fights
and attacks for specific buildings and areas.
Gerlach, Heinrich, The Forsaken Army, Cassell, 2002-
Let you feel the desperate situation for the Germans in the Cauldron.
Grossman, Vasily, Life and Fate, Harper & Row, 1980 -
For sure a long read. The Stalingrad part tells a bout a surrounded appartment block.
This is not specific Stalingrad but a good read.
Grossman , Vasily, A writer at war, The Harvill press 2005 -
A book with notes made by Grossman. It covers the entire
war. From Barbarossa to Berlin.His description of Treblinka is a must read.
I'm a 150 pages into Life and Fate right now.
It's phenomenal--I have shivers running down my spine every five pages.
"Even the thick-lipped sergeant-major with the fleshy ears, the man responsible for the burial of dead patients, felt guilty before the woman he was driving to the cemetary: the coffins were knocked together out of thin, poor-quality boards; the dead were laid out in their underclothes and buried in communal graves--extremely close together unless they were officers; the inscriptions over the graves were in an ugly script, on unpolished board and in paint that would not last. Of course, men who died in a field first-aid post were just heaped together in pits without individual coffins, and the inscriptions there were writted in indelible pencil that would only last until it next rained. And men who died in combat, in forests, bogs, gullies, and fields, often found no one at all to bury them--only wind, sand and snowstorms..." (Grossman, Vasily, 149, Harper & Row)
It's phenomenal--I have shivers running down my spine every five pages.
"Even the thick-lipped sergeant-major with the fleshy ears, the man responsible for the burial of dead patients, felt guilty before the woman he was driving to the cemetary: the coffins were knocked together out of thin, poor-quality boards; the dead were laid out in their underclothes and buried in communal graves--extremely close together unless they were officers; the inscriptions over the graves were in an ugly script, on unpolished board and in paint that would not last. Of course, men who died in a field first-aid post were just heaped together in pits without individual coffins, and the inscriptions there were writted in indelible pencil that would only last until it next rained. And men who died in combat, in forests, bogs, gullies, and fields, often found no one at all to bury them--only wind, sand and snowstorms..." (Grossman, Vasily, 149, Harper & Row)
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Just because he has a nice resume does not mean that he cannot make unsupported statements or be biased.