Description |
318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Note |
Originally published: Mainz, Germany : Hase & Koehler Verlag, 1998, as Vergiss die Zeit der Dornen nicht. |
Contents |
En route -- Fighting in Stalingrad -- A narrow escape -- A last-minute reprieve -- Blood red snow falls not from the sky -- A temporary lull -- Hunting Italian partisans -- Return to the Russian inferno -- Alarm at the Nikopol bridgehead -- Fear and hatred supplant tears -- Through bottomless mud -- Deadly intermezzo -- From Knight's Cross to wooden cross -- Condemned to death -- Vultures over Nemmersdorf -- From Poland to a fool's paradise -- Better dead than Siberia. |
Subject |
Koschorrek, Günter K., 1923-
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Soldiers -- Germany -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union.
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Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943.
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Genre |
Biographies.
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Added Author |
Crone-Aamot, Olav R.
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Added Title |
Memoirs of a German soldier on the Eastern Front |
ISBN |
1853675083 |
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