STALINGRAD

Time Reading Program Special Edition, New York, 1966.  Trade soft cover, 418 pages.  Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.  Wraps show light edge and cover wear, binding sound with a very slight lean, reading creases on spine; foxing and soil on outer page block.  Black & white frontis of the author; interior clean and unmarked with very lightly tanned pages.  ‘The battle for Stalingrad lasted 164 days – from August 23, 1942, until February 2, 1943.  When it was over some 150,000 of the Axis’ finest soldiers lay frozen in Soviet soil – many of them in mass graves – and that many more were shuffling along icy Russian roads with their hands (if they had any left) high above their heads.  Stalingrad was undoubtedly one of the bloodiest, most gruesome battles in history.  All told, some 450,000 humans perished.’ (from Editors’ Preface)