From the defeat at Stalingrad in 1942-3, Germany was doomed to lose the ... of the Prussian military tradition for me one of the most interesting themes of Antony Beevor’s book. The failure of this ...

Stalingrad, first published in 1998 ... It has already been a No 1 bestseller in Britain and four other countries, and a bestseller in another four. Antony Beevor was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des ...

The last German troops surrender to the Red Army in Stalingrad, a Soviet city. This marked the end of one of the big battles of World War II. Illustration: Santanu Kumar Santan Throughout history, ...

As Antony Beevor points out in his excellent new history of the operation, there was dismay at this codename even at the time. One paratrooper complained that ‘market garden’ made it sound ‘like we ...