Stalingrad: a soldier’s testimony
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Your Peace Is the King of Starling Grad
The title of the book is i am the king of stallin grad. I wonder if yo could explain to our listeners how that title came about. It got to the point where it was the second week of september, and the powerless sxth army is now about to go into stalingrad. The lufaf had decimated the city with carpet bombing,. And as the old adage goes, they turned it into perfect ambush territory. So some of the, for instance, some of the kitchen staff, some er extra artillery personnel from the divisions artillery units were drafted in two just to make up the numbers.
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