Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad Ryan. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad is a book written by William Craig and published in 1973 by Reader's Digest Press and in 1974 by Penguin Publishing. The 2001 film "Enemy at the Gates" utilized the book's title and used it as one of its sources, but was not a direct adaptation of the work. The "Slavic Review" panned "Enemy at the Gates", calling it "rambling and exaggerated" and negatively comparing Craig to author Paul Carell. In contrast, "The Washington Post" was more favorable and drew favorable comparisons to
Wide is My Motherland Wide is My Motherland "Wide is My Motherland" (), also known as "Song of the Motherland" (), is a famous patriotic song of Russia and the former Soviet Union. The music was composed by Isaac Dunaevsky and the words were written by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. The song was first featured in the classic Soviet film ""Circus"" in 1936. The song made its début in the 1936 film "Circus", starring Lyubov Orlova and Sergei Stolyarov. The film depicts the story of an American woman who flees from racism in the United States after giving birth to an African-American child. She comes to