LAURENCE REES: What do you think was the single greatest turning point of the war?
MAX HASTINGS: The boring answer has to be the right one. Stalingrad. Stalingrad changes everything. Once the Germans have been thrown back from Stalingrad, once they’d lost that battle, then after that the war never looked the same again.
Greatest turning point of WW2
Sir Max Hastings
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