Many cinéfilos readers of the new school, or in its defect fans of Jude Law and Rachel Weisz (an English beauty, doubtlessly), part of the title will sound to them on the lookout of the original version of, slightly, badly translated "the Enemy", whose English-speaking version took the name of "Enemy AT The Gates". As some remember, Jude Law
interpreted the sniper stars of the Soviet troops, Vasily Zaistev; Rachel Weisz interpreted, by halves is possible to clarify, to Tania, lover of Zaistev during a time, and the bare one interpreted to Köning, whose existence is put in doubt by more of a historian. Until here the film. We (I) are going (I go) to speak of the damn
book. The
Battle For Stalingrad is a guessed right and impartial historical story, to a large extent, brutal realist and, who does not keep absolutely anything. William Craig makes use of a quite ample language, more than what hoped for a work of
history, and approaches much its production to non-fiction novel that characterized as much Truman Cape. The book, in himself, deals with all the important and excellent facets the battle, from the last phases of planning of the attack, to the unconditional surrender of the Field marshal Paulus in front of the troops of Zhukov (Head of all the Army Corps of the Guard - Soviet -, no
matter how
hard the approach has made it a lieutenant forgotten almost always), happening and stopping in the individual stories of several protagonists of the battle, slightly ficcionalizados to be able to maintain the rate atrapante that it is acquiring the book leaf after leaf. The book counts of approximately thirty chapters (I do not have the book aca to check that information, indeed) in which relates with a human sensitivity all the details of the battle that changed the course of Contémporanea history. From the promise of Hitler and Goering to establish the airlift when the Kessel forms, to the stirring
pages of Christmas and New Year, everything, absolutely all the occurred one in inhospitable Russian earth was reflected in the pages of Enemy AT The Gates. The Battle For Stalingrad. Also, as they can imagine, there is a chapter dedicated to the history of Vasily Zaistev and Tania. Sacha also is, and many truely stirring and chocantes histories, in many cases. The book, could be said, ends up becoming a firm plea against the war and the killer brutality of the man, no matter how hard the author does not say any word on the matter. It had already dedicated almost six hundred pages to him before to describe them. Infaltable in the library of any reader, no matter how hard the historical chronicle is not their favourite sort.
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