{"product_id":"9781786690630","title":"Breakout at Stalingrad","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Gerlach, Heinrich, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 09\/08\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 720 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Head of Zeus,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Head of Zeus,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Second World War fiction, Fiction in translation\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781786690630\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStalingrad, November 1942. Lieutenant Breuer dreams of returning home for Christmas. But he and his fellow German soldiers will spend winter in a frozen hell - as snow, ice and relentless Soviet assaults reduce the once-mighty Sixth Army to a diseased and starving rabble.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBreakout at Stalingrad is a stark and terrifying portrait of the horrors of war, and a profoundly humane depiction of comradeship in adversity. The book itself has an extraordinary story behind it. Its author fought at Stalingrad and was imprisoned by the Soviets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn captivity, he wrote a novel based on his experiences, which the Soviets confiscated before releasing him. Gerlach resorted to hypnosis to remember his narrative, and in 1957 it was published as The Forsaken Army. Fifty-five years later Carsten Gansel, an academic, came across the original manuscript of Gerlach's novel in a Moscow archive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis first translation into English of Breakout at Stalingrad includes the story of Gansel's sensational discovery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35020585730201,"sku":"9781786690630","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781786690630.jpg?v=1602541051","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9781786690630","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}