On the very first page of the introduction, I begin to ask myself if there isn’t something wrong. And although the present review has been reduced to a minimum, it is still twice as long as I had envisaged.

A review dealing with only some of the coarsest lies, would fill many columns of a newspaper. To refute all these lies one would have to write several books. It soon became obvious that Beevor’s Stalingrad is a book of propaganda against the Soviet Union, with page after page full of lies, a total falsification of history. I had initially thought of making a short review. Perhaps they wanted to do a little justice to the Soviet victory after all these years? With these thoughts in my mind I began to read Beevor’s “Stalingrad”. Remarkable, I thought! They cried when the Nazis had been defeated and destroyed at Stalingrad! And now they admire Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad!? Perhaps they had sobered up after all these years? After all it was a fight against Nazism. According to right wing critics, the book is “a brilliant and very well written book” (the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet) and “Stalingrad beats most of what has been written on the Second World War” (the Swedish newspaper Vestmanlands Läns Tidning). This astonished me and awakened my curiosity. Antony Beevor, a former officer in the British army, has now been presented as a writer of war history. Antony Beevor’s book “Stalingrad” has been highly praised in Swedish media.

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor