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“A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians.”

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Author:Antony Beevor

“The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.”

Made Military Easier Army Locals Resistance Made It Contrast Reserves Threatened Scope Arcs Defenders Levers Tactical Stalingrad

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.”

Ifs Men Said Facts Danger Brave West Spots Berlin Brave Man Stalingrad West Berlin

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.”

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Author:Vasily Chuikov

“Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.”

Men World Lasts Fronts Position Army Salvation Western Rounds Surrender Contribution Endurance Heroic Establishment Forbidden Western World Unforgettable Stalingrad

Author:Adolf Hitler

“By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.”

“One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.”

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Book:Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks,

Source: Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks,

“A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.”

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Author:Joseph Goebbels

“He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.”

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Author:Erwin Rommel

“My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?”

Knows Years Mean Names Bits Five Four Plans Dad Band Radical Glorious Five Years Communist Posture Moscow Siege Five Year Plans Sputnik Stalingrad

Author:Alexei Sayle

“Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying, "well, it's not going well." Ok, that make them liberal. It's like, it's if we were to say, that going back to, say, Nazi Germany, that Hitler's general staff was liberal after Stalingrad because they were criticizing his tactics: "It was a mistake to fight a two front war, we should've knocked off Englad first," or something.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He says it was a "strategic blunder," like Nazi generals after Stalingrad.”

War Iraq Nazi Strategic Objections Iraq War Blunders Principled Stalingrad

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.”

Ifs Men Courage Danger Bravery Brave Spots Brave Man Stalingrad West Berlin

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.”

Way Humans Has Beens War Technology Industry Mass Productions Afghanistan Vietnam Antiwar Corpses Hiroshima Specialty Mass Production Dachau Stalingrad Shiloh

Author:Edward Abbey

“Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.”

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Author:Friedrich Paulus