Through Hell for Hitler: A Dramatic First-Hand Account of Fighting With the Wehrmacht - Hardcover

Metelmann, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0971170916 ISBN 13: 9780971170919

Verlag: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Here is the extraordinary story of one man’s war. This book portrays the gradual awakening in the mind of a young Youth ‘educated’ soldier of a Panzer Division, bogged down in the bitterest fighting on the Eastern Front, to the truth of the criminal character of what he is involved in.

Having in mind that about 9 out of 10 German soldiers who died in WWII were killed in Russia, the book throws light on the largely unreported heroic sacrifices of Soviet soldiers and civilians often against seemingly hopeless odds, without which Europe might well have fallen to fascism. It deals less with grand strategies, tactics and military technicalities than with the human involvement of ordinary people, from both sides, who were caught up in that enormity of a tragedy, that epic struggle in Russia.

It throws light on the chasm which existed between officers and men in the sharply class-divided Wehrmacht with most of the top rank officers having been drawn from the old imperial aristocracy..

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0971170916
• ISBN 13: 9780971170919
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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