These memoirs are unconditionally recognized as one of the best books about the Battle of Stalingrad and one of the most terrible testimonies about the Second World War. Wigand Wüster tells in full detail about the merciless battle in the Volga steppes and ruins of Stalingrad, unheard of losses and the unprecedented defeat of the Wehrmacht in the Stalingrad "cauldron," after which the myth of the invincibility of the Third Reich was dispelled and Hitler's dream of world domination and "living space" in the East burned down.