Thomas F. (hardtack) -
This is probably the most exhausting account of what it was like to be a German soldier in Stalingrad during that late 1942-early 1943 campaign. Compared to them, our Revolutionary War soldiers at Valley Forge had it easy. At the same time, the author spends too much time criticizing the moral failures of the army and army group commanders as well as Hitler and the German General Staff for what happened to the men of the Sixth Army. But then, he was one of those men and probably feels a moral obligation to tell what happened and to refute the memoirs of those generals, especially that of the army group commander, who attempted to whitewash the decision to let hundreds of thousands die needlessly in appalling conditions.
