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. It details the Battle of Stalingrad, fought by opposing Soviet and Axis forces during the Second World War. The book begins with the German advance across southern Russia in 1942 and culminates with the surrender and imprisonment of the Axis forces several months later, in 1943. A sub-plot of the book has since been turned into a major motion picture, Enemy at the Gates (2001), starring Jude Law.