Stalingrad Quotes

“Fighting is going on inside the elevator’, one of their soldiers wrote. ‘It is occupied not by men but by devils, whom no flames or bullets can destroy. If all the buildings of Stalingrad are defended like this, then none of our soldiers will get back to Germany.”
― Michael K. Jones, Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed

“Vasily Chuikov discarded communist rhetoric to express a truth every soldier at Stalingrad would have understood: ‘When a man is pushed to his very limits, and he realizes there is absolutely nowhere else to go – then he really has to start fighting!”
― Michael Jones, Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed