Battle Of Stalingrad: A Narrative Analysis

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 is book written by the British military historian, Antony Beevor. Stalingrad covers the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. Stalingrad was a city in Russia where Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union fought for control. This was part of Adolf Hitler’s plan to crush the Soviet Union and extend his Third Reich into Russian territory. The battle lasted from August 1942 to February 1943. However, the battle ended up with the destruction of the entire German 6th army and with a victory for the Soviet Union. Beevor has won three awards for this book. I wish to give brief summaries of the five sections of the book and give reviews on their main content.

Don’t leave me here alone.’ The narrator simply shakes him off and moves on. The soldiers have been trained like beasts and they have been dehumanised; they have been taught that no life is to be spared. Death is now the norm and they have been desensitized to it. The narrator relates an incident where he volunteers for a raid on the German trenches. He experiences much trauma; he kills a soldier, Karl. Karl’s death is terrible- the bayonet is trapped in Karl and eventually the narrator has to shoot him. When he returns to the trenches with two German prisoners he tries to suppress what has happened: ‘It is better not to think’. The narrator knows that he would indubitably go insane if he thinks about his action. Karl’s death epitomizes the fact that soldiers on both sides are killed in horrific way for no discernible reason. There is definitely nothing glorious or heroic about war.

It is the winter of 1942, and a desperate, poorly equipped and demoralized Russian army faces the possibility of crushing defeat by the might of the German blitzkrieg. A young naïve soldier from the Urals, Vassily Zaitsev, arrives in Stalingrad where he is thrust into battle amid the needless slaughter of his fellow soldiers be the Germans and his own troops. To his shock, he is not given a rifle to use during the attack. Instead, the men are paired together and one is given a rifle while the other is given extra ammunition. Vassily survives the first

Captain Dennis W. Dingle’s dissertation, presented before the faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1977, concerns the significance of the Soviet Union’s decisive victory at Stalingrad and its impact on the outcome of the Second World War. While much of this information is irrelevant for the purpose of answering the thesis question I have proposed, it does contain indispensable statistics showcasing the economic and military might of the two most pertinent combatant nations in the Second World War in the timeframe of December of 1941 and July of 1943.

I remember the smell, the sounds, the taste of blood. I remember seeing my comrades fall beside me, the sting of the cuts. The numbness as I fell alongside them, the sadness, the tears. The price of war, I believe my father said that to me before he died. I remember being lifted and carried, I remember a laugh. Then I felt my mind slowly becoming numb, and soon my mind was consumed by the darkness. Like a wildfire it spread from the farthest of places, destroying everything in its’ path. It was over, the war was lost, hope gone; at least until today….

Battle of Stalingrad (Rough Draft) The battle of Stalingrad was a bloody war with over two million casualties. For Russia, it was the turning point in the war. Germany attacked Stalingrad, Russia during the winter of 1942.

Blind to the truth of what really happens. It’s times like this where I am forever grateful for the experience I have already been faced with gruesome events. Yet that hateful feeling of dread continues to tower over me each and every day. It’s challenging to recall what it was like for me the first I set foot on the battle field, as it seems like a lifetime ago. I suppose that I have lived a lifetime in these trenches. I wish that with every enemy I shoot it shall not say with me. A constant reminder of our sacrifices, I’m on edge as it feels like a continuous want for death. Bewildered as to when it will strike again shaken by the fact that it could be me carried away, or left in the barbarous

“If I’d been asked to give my life for something worthwhile I’d have volunteered, but I was deceived in two ways: first, they lied to us; second, it took me eight years to find out the truth about the war itself” which shows how he had trust in the motherland so he went to honor the government but they deceived him (Alexievich 28). Soldiers are not happy because they lost hope in their own government. Alexievich explains how the motherland was so important to the

Friday, November 17, 2017, the sixth-grade students at Davidson Fine Arts went to Medieval Times and since we are reading a book named" Crispin" we were to act like we were entering the town of Great Wexly. Now let us get on with this essay. Yes! Sorry, I am just so excited about today. Today the Lord Furnivall, the king here, forgave me and is letting me and a couple more presents enter the castle. Wow, just got back, guess what was in the castle they had shown us sword and other fighting tools, they had a torture room, I went in but some people didn't go in there and some shouldn't have gone in there because there were some disturbing things, jousting and they feed us chicken, corn, and bread. The bread tasted differ, but, I don't really know how bread taste since I have only had it ten times before.

The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (present day Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R during World War II. The battle for Stalingrad was fought between the Soviet Union and the Axis of Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary, and Croatia from August 23, 1942 to February 2, 1943. The major parts of the battle occurred in Eastern Europe in present day Ukraine and into the Soviet Union up to the Volga River which splits the city of Stalingrad. The battle of Stalingrad only occurred because of Adolf Hitler’s hatred for Soviet President Joseph Stalin and the city being named after him.

The Vietnam war was a fight that almost lasted fifteen years. With two hundred and eighty two thousand allied deaths. Soldiers dealt with the grueling fear and pain of comrades dying, not knowing if they would live to see their families again. Over twelve thousand miles from home. Tim O’Brien describes the many ways men deal with the uncertain fear and death around them, often in surprising ways.

During World War II, the battle of Stalingrad began in the city of Stalingrad, Russia and was fought between August of 1942 and February of 1943. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad It is still considered today to be one of Russia’s greatest battles in which the Russian army defended itself from invasion by the German army. This battle essentially stopped Germany’s determined advance into Russian territory. This marked a huge turning point in the war for the Allies. It was a very important war because it crippled the German offensive as well as destroying much of its army.

Referring to the Battle of Stalingrad, one soldier wrote, “But what is death in reality here? Here they croak, starve to death, freeze to death-it's nothing but a biological fact like eating and drinking. They drop like flies; nobody cares and nobody buries them,” (Schneider 344) making sense of the severe conditions and its effect on German soldiers in Stalingrad.

Hitler, the main villain in WWII betrayed the leader of Russia Stalin, and that is where he made a mistake. He tried to invade Stalingrad one of the most key battles on the Eastern front and was a turning point in the fall of Germany. And in my opinion, was the fatal blow to the German forces. So have you heard of the Siege of Stalingrad? Let me tell you why it was important. The Siege of Stalingrad was important because.

MMy area of focus for this semester’s Major Project is the Battle of Stalingrad from the Second World War. The two works I have chosen, which are set during this battle, are Stalingrad (2013), a movie directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and War of the Rats, a novel written by David L Robbins. I have a strong interest in history – especially warfare - and had decided to look into the battles of the Second World War when I came upon the Battle of Stalingrad. I never learned about this battle during grade ten History, so I decided to read more about it and became extremely interested. Its reputation being one of history’s bloodiest battles, as well as one of the most important battles during World War Two sparked my interest. (“Battle of Stalingrad”)