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The historian [William L. Shirer]?, in his monumental history of World War II, [The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich]?, eloquently summarized the importance of the Battle of Stalingrad with these words: :Coupled with [El Alamein]? and the British-American landings in North Africa it marked the great turning point in World War II. The high tide of Nazi conquest which had rolled over most of Europe to the frontier of Asia on the Volga and in Africa almost to the Nile had now begun to ebb and it would never flow back again. The time of the great Nazi blitz offensives, with thousands of tanks and planes spreading terror in the ranks of the enemy armies and cutting them to pieces, had come to an end. |
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