"All these materials are handled so brilliantly and well that it is amazing that the Breakout of Stalingrad is the first written by Gerlach in fiction" - David Mills, The Sunday TimesStalingrad. The same word evokes the deepest horror of the war, with some 300,000 German soldiers gradually and painfully reduced to only 91,000 in hellish waste in a frozen Russian winter.

Fighting, disease, starvation and exposure have torn apart the world's most technologically advanced combat force, finally realizing that they were thinking of the real, unforgiving thought of the Nazi war machine. Stalingrad's story is the inner story.

Heinrich Gerlach, originally a soldier from the 14th Panzer Division, wrote the manuscript as a Russian prisoner of war. However, the text was confiscated by the Russian Assyrians, forcing Gerlach to rewrite the book from memory as a long-standing classics, The Forsaken Army.

In retrospect, in 2012, academicist Carsten Gansel stumbled across the manuscript in the Russian State Military Archive and an outbreak in Stalingrad is the result of this discovery. More brutal and valiant than the cavalry, this is the story of ordinary German fighters who gradually deal with the corruption of the regime they form part of..