Status Updates From The Battle For Stalingrad

War memoirs are my version of court of thorns and roses/sarah j maas type slop. Endlessly entertaining. Anyway this one is extremely detailed, pro Kruschev anti Stalin (political but in a boring way) + somewhat more self aggrandizing than usual memoirs. But the detail about reconstituting retreating units to defend the approach to Stalingrad has such precision and imagination and anecdotes galore, I must appreciate