Tag Archives: The Stalingrad Cauldron

Hell freezes over

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Derek Turner

Hell freezes over LESLIE JONES is engrossed by a wide-ranging analysis of an iconic battle The Stalingrad Cauldron: Inside the Encirclement and Destruction of the 6th Army Frank Ellis, 2013, University Press of Kansas, 512 pp., hb., US$39 According to … Continue reading →

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Evil in the east – communism’s European legacy

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Derek Turner

Evil in the east – communism’s European legacy FRANK ELLIS finds much to admire in a survey of postwar communist totalitarianism Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 Anne Applebaum, Allen Lane, London, 2012, xxxix + pp.498, maps, photos, … Continue reading →