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Stalingrad - The city that defeated the Third Reich by Jochen Hellbeck
Shitty English title that obscures why it's fantastic IMO. The German title literally translates to "The Stalingrad Protocols". The book is based off of documents from an enormous Soviet project to "capture" the battle through the participants, and contains lots of amazing interviews conducted with soldiers and officers and civilians just days after Paulus' surrender.
The project was shut down by the Soviet regime who wasn't very interested in "social realism" anymore but craved more idealistic propaganda. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the documents were re-discovered of sorts, because they were archived and transcribed even if they never were published in any way.
https://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-City-Defeated-Third-Reich/dp/1610394968
My curiosity has been thoroughly piqued.