800-page historical work by Antony Beevor about the WWII battle, described as the archetype of straightforward military history books popular with dads.
"Straightforward prose, lots of maps and figures, profiles of ordinary guys who did extraordinary things, very little commentary that isn't rooted in a decent amount of historical fact. Very easy reading. "Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor is the archetype, but turns out there's one for pretty much any 20"