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

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#332308-VE34
Titel	Through Hell for Hitler: A Dramatic First-Hand Account of Fighting on the Eastern Front With the Wehrmacht
Auteur	Metelmann, Henry
Boektype	Gebonden
Uitgeverij	Havertown, PA : Casemate
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	0971170916
ISBN13	9780971170919
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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. ... (Lees verder) 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..
Pagina's	208
Conditie	Goed — Corners dust jacket slightly worn.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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