Editing Battle of Stalingrad (section)

==In popular culture==
{{Main|Battle of Stalingrad in popular culture}}

The events of the Battle for Stalingrad have been covered in numerous media works of British, American, German, and Russian origin,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4562967572164209056&q=duration%3Along+is%3Afree+genre%3AMOVIE_FEATURE|title=The Great Battle on the Volga (1962)|access-date=12 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628181553/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4562967572164209056&q=duration:long+is:free+genre:MOVIE_FEATURE|archive-date=28 June 2011}}</ref> for its significance as a turning point in the Second World War and for the loss of life associated with the battle. Stalingrad has become synonymous with large-scale urban battles with immense casualties on both sides,<ref name="Johnson-1991" /><ref name="Anderson-2003" /><ref>{{Citation |author1=Robertson, William G and Yates Lawrence A (Ed) |title=Block by Block: The Challenges of Urban Operations |pages=29–53, 443–444 |url=https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Primer-on-Urban-Operation/Documents/BlockByBlock_TheChallengesOfUrbanOperations.pdf |access-date=16 May 2019 |publisher=US Army Command and General Staff College Press, Fort Leavenworth Kansas USA}}</ref><ref name="Spencer-2021"/><ref name="Walsh-2020" /> and according to historian David Glantz, has become a "metaphor for the ferocity of the Soviet-German conflict and, indeed, for the devastating nature of twentieth-century warfare as a whole".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Glantz |first=David M. |url=https://archive.org/details/togatesofstaling0000glan/mode/1up |title=To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |year=2009 |pages=xvii |isbn=978-0-7006-1630-5 |language=en}}</ref> Also, historian [[Geoffrey Roberts]] states that "No battle of any war has had more written about it than Stalingrad"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Geoffrey |first=Roberts |title=Victory at Stalingrad |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |isbn=978-0582771857 |edition=1st |pages=ix |language=en}}</ref> and that "No battle of the Second World War has captured the public imagination as much as the clash between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany at Stalingrad in 1942.{{nbsp}}... Stalingrad was an epic battle unmatched by any other in its dimensions, drama and decisiveness."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Geoffrey |first=Roberts |title=Victory at Stalingrad |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |isbn=978-0582771857 |edition=1st |pages=3 |language=en}}</ref> In addition, besides the battle being recognized as the bloodiest and fiercest of the war, it is also considered to have been the closest of the war as well,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Calvocoressi |first1=Peter |author-link=Peter Calvocoressi |url=https://archive.org/details/totalwar0000pete/page/n5/mode/1up |title=Total War: The Story of World War II |last2=Wint |first2=Guy |publisher=Pantheon Books |year=1972 |isbn=978-0394471044 |location=New York |pages=452 |language=en}}</ref> as Geoffrey Roberts quotes the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]]'s remark about the [[Battle of Waterloo]] as a "close-run thing" to describe the Battle of Stalingrad,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Geoffrey |author-link=Geoffrey Roberts |date=2023-03-14 |title=Whose 'Stalingrad' will Bakhmut be? |url=https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/03/14/whose-stalingrad-will-bakhmut-be/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=responsiblestatecraft.org |language=en}}</ref> further adding to its popularity status and notoriety.