Stalingrad

In April 1942 Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.

The war will consume the lives of a huge cast of characters - lives which express Grossman’s grand themes of the nation and the individual nature’s beauty and war’s cruelty love and separation. For months Soviet forces are driven back inexorably by the German advance eastward and eventually Stalingrad is all that remains between the invaders and victory.

The city stands on a cliff top by the Volga River. The battle for Stalingrad - a maelstrom of violence and firepower - will reduce it to ruins. But it will also be the cradle of a new sense of hope.