My latest book “Stalingrad” by Antony Beevor. Stalingrad is considered the turning point of WW2, and I find it very interesting to get to know how the Russian victory of Stalingrad would then again strongly influence how Europe was divided into West and East after the end of the war. More, it was frightening to read about the suffering on both sides during the battle. We are never able to understand it by just reading about it, but then again, at least when having read the book I know more…

Read more at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
Review of the book in Norwegian http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2002/12/09/355882.html

Stalingrad