Stalingrad

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest battle of the Second World War, and one of the bloodiest in the history of warfare. Infamous for its atrocious conditions and brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle raged for just over 5 months and concluded with an estimated 2 million casualties. Dan is joined by Iain MacGregor, author of the acclaimed book The Lighthouse of Stalingrad, to hear his thrilling account of history's greatest battle and the key moments that shaped its outcome.

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to Ansono's history.
0:03.0	80 years ago, this fall and winter, the battle of Stalingrad was raging in the southern
0:09.2	Soviet city on the Volga River.
0:12.2	It's probably the largest battle by numbers of people involved and casualties in human history.
0:20.7	Millions of men, thousands of tanks, over a million people killed, wounded, brutalized,
0:28.8	taken prisoner.
0:29.8	It is an astonishing tale.
0:32.3	And it's one that Soviets credit with turning the tide in the Second World War.
0:38.0	On this podcast, I'm very lucky to have Ian McGregor.
0:40.5	He's just written a really magisterial book on Stalingrad, called The Lighthouse of Stalingrad.
0:46.4	He came back from a visit to the city, the modern city, called Volga-Read, which he visited
0:51.9	during lockdown and just before relations between Russia and the West took their dive early
0:59.3	this year.
1:00.5	He's found all sorts of new material.
1:02.4	He's added even more colour, texture and detail to this hugely well-known and hugely important
1:11.1	battle.
1:12.1	So it's great to have him on this the 80th anniversary.
1:14.4	And at a time, when once again, tanks are rolling across Eastern Europe.
1:20.4	For your documentary on Stalingrad, coming up on History at TV, so as ever, make sure
1:23.5	you're subscribing to that.
1:25.8	He's Ian McGregor on History's greatest battle.
1:28.0	He might have seen the comic book, dropped on Hiroshi, God gave the king.
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