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...STALINGRAD (357 pp.)-Theodor Plievier-Applefon-Century-Crofts...
...German editions, Stalingrad has sold more than a million copies. It is not likely to make such a dent in the U.S., because it is directed to the Germans. It calls itself a novel-but, in essence, it is not a novel at all; it is an enormous chart of case histories in a world of mass horror...
Plievier's setting is the area around Stalingrad, where Field Marshal von Paulus and his 330,000 men of the German Sixth Army were ordered to fight to the bitter end-and nearly half were obliterated in the space of seven weeks. Plievier describes, with ruthless exactness, just how they were obliterated-how snow and ice shattered their limbs like dry wood, how they starved on dried peas and hot water while suffering horribly from dysentery and typhus, how they committed suicide and fell under fire, until after ten weeks only some 50,000 human wrecks remained able...
Such questions carry their own answers, if, as is certainly the case with Author Plievier, the author's rhetoric is sufficiently apt and impassioned. Stalingrad is not much as fiction, but it has the impressiveness of a terrifying, twice-told lesson taught by an adamant professor of humanity...
...pillboxes, ammunition and food. Just inside Greek territory observers found Hungarian canned vegetables and fruit, Yugoslav canned meat and Albanian cigarettes. In the bushes on either side of the border were Bulgarian books on such subjects as "Thirty Years in the Soviet Army," "This Is How We Fought at Stalingrad" and "The American Plan for the Enslavement of Europe...