Stalingrad - Horror and Myth Antony Beevor tells the story of the people of Stalingrad - the soldiers and the civilian population. He is not so much interested in strategies and the craft of war, but in people, fates, the last traces of the damned who perished in mud, ice and hail of bullets. Antony Beevor uses previously inaccessible sources: reports of desertions and executions, intercepted German documents, interrogation protocols, diaries and letters that never arrived. The result is a harrowing book of remembrance that has been praised worldwide as an important anti-war document.