![]() The book was extensively edited through a number of editions. Grossman wrote Stalingrad starting in 1943. The book states that the Germans effectively lost World War II by mid-September 1942, after they failed to take Stalingrad. ![]() Some of Grossman's characters are allowed to flee the city, some die fleeing, some fight or work while the immense battle continues around them. ![]() The German attack on Stalingrad began on August 23, 1942, with 1600 bomber sorties dropping high explosives and incendiaries, completely destroying the city. The book follows the members and friends of the Shaposhnikov family as they work and then fight or flee from Western SSRs to Stalingrad by 1942. The book describes the individual shock of the 22 June,1941 invasion for many of its characters as the German invasion completely altered life for Soviets everywhere. Most of the events of Stalingrad take place in the Soviet Union starting in the months before Nazi Germany's invasion Operation Barbarossa, and up through mid-September in the first month of the Battle of Stalingrad.
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