Stalingrad (1999)

Anthony Beevor is a talented writer, the book is easy to read yet dense and very informative (in a good way).

Each page is dripping with information describing the battlefields from a lone soldier's point of view and from the point of view of a commander

The book gives you are real sense of the brutality of war, especially from the Russians

You don't need to be a historian to understand what is going on, Beevor explains the situations and circumstances very well

Never knew Stalin and Hitler were paranoid to the extent described in the book, especially Hitler

This book should be used in schools to highlight the desperation and reality of war. It should be mandatory reading in WWII history.