Four Steps to Death

A million people were killed in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, one of the worst battles in history, and the intertwined stories of three people, each told in third person, offer a human-scale account of the cataclysm.

Related: Awards, Europe, Historical Fiction, Russia, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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