Victory at Stalingrad tells the gripping strategic and military story of that battle. The hard-won Soviet victory prevented Hitler from waging the Second World War for another ten years and set the Germans on the road to defeat. The Soviet victory also prevented the Nazis from completing the Final Solution, the wholesale destruction of European Jewry, which began with Hitler,s "War of Annihilation" against the Soviets on the Eastern Front. Geoffrey Roberts places the conflict in the context of the clash between two mighty powers:their world views and their leaders. He presents a great human drama, highlighting the contribution made by political and military leaders on both sides. He shows that the real story of the battle was the Soviets, failure to achieve their greatest ambition: to deliver an immediate, war-winning knockout blow to the Germans. This provocative reassessment presents new evidence and challenges the myths and legends that surround both the battle and the key personalities who led and planned it.

傑弗裏·羅伯茨，是研究蘇聯曆史和第二次世界大戰的專傢，他是科剋大學現代曆史係的講師。他的著作包括《蘇德聯盟：斯大林與希特勒之間的協議》（1989年齣版）、《世界政治中的蘇聯，1945-1991》、《蘇聯與國際政治，1945-1991》（1998年齣版）、《蘇聯與第二次世界大戰的根源》、《愛爾蘭與第二次世界大戰》（與布賴恩·格文聯閤主編）和《曆史與敘述讀物》（主編）。