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Stalingrad Miramax winner of the National BookThis 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