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The Forsaken Army: The Great Novel of Stalingrad

On November 22, 1942, Russian forces closed around the 270,000 German soldiers who had come to take Stalingrad. Only a handful of these men ever returned to Germany: Heinrich Gerlach was one of them, and he determined to spend the rest of his life telling the world how his fellow soldiers had been sacrificed to Hitler's megalomania. Though a novel, every episode, every character, every detail of description is thoroughly authentic.

Subject
historybiography
Genre
war and militaryhistorical fictionworld war II
Setting
world war IIrussia
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 385 pages

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