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Jochen Hellbeck

Biography

Jochen Hellbeck

Jochen Hellbeck is a professor of history at Rutgers University and a specialist in 20th-century Russia. His previous book, REVOLUTION ON MY MIND, explored personal diaries written in the Soviet Union under Stalin. The German edition of Stalingrad won a DAMALS prize for best historical study of the year. Hellbeck runs a website, facingstalingrad.com, that features portraits and interviews taken with German and Russian veterans of the battle of Stalingrad. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Jochen Hellbeck

Books by Jochen Hellbeck

Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich
by Jochen Hellbeck - History, Nonfiction

The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler’s soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. Yet Stalingrad never fell. After months of bitter fighting, 100,000 surviving Germans surrendered to Soviet troops. During the battle and shortly after its conclusion, scores of Red Army commanders and soldiers, party officials and workers spoke with a team of historians who visited from Moscow to record their conversations. The tapestry of their voices provides groundbreaking insights into the thoughts and feelings of Soviet citizens during wartime.