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
She Defends the Motherland she organizes her fellow villagers in the forest, where they have taken refuge, into a guerilla unit which first thwarts, then overcomes, the fascist invaders. She Defends the Motherland She Defends the Motherland, () is a 1943 Soviet drama film starring Vera Maretskaya and directed by Fridrikh Ermler. It was distributed in the United States by Artkino Pictures as No Greater Love, also in 1943, with a dubbed-English soundtrack. Praskovya Lukyanova, a rural villager in the USSR, first loses her husband in battle at the outbreak of WWII, and then her only, small son, who is run over deliberately by