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A thrilling, vivid, and highly detailed account of the epic siege during one of World War II?s most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie, Iain MacGregor.September, 1942: The Battle for Stalingrad was one of the most decisive in the Second World War?indeed, in any war in history. With over two million combatants killed, wounded, or captured, it was also the bloodiest in a terrible landscape of suffering: Twenty-seven million Russians?including sixteen million civilians?lost their lives in the war. Elite German and Russian troops battled for control of Stalingrad in brutal house-to-house fighting. This deadly, high-stakes struggle centered on the fight to hold a key strategic building (codenamed: ?The Lighthouse?) a few hundred meters from the River Volga. Right on the frontline, a small band of Soviet soldiers held up an entire German division with armored support, for over one hundred days. The epic fight swung the

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