In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann
Modern War Studies (2000)
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"What distinguishes Bidermann's book are his soldier's insights on the German army and the Eastern Front. Rather than glorifying the war as Germany's eastern crusade, Bidermann looks at the lives and the feelings of the soldiers as they relate to their adversaries and the battles they fought."--Parameters "In Deadly Combat is Bidermann's unforgettable account of life and death under almost impossible circumstances. Released for the first time in English, it offers battle descriptions of show more unprecedented detail. Yet, this memoir goes deeper into a typical German infantryman's wartime experience, lending insight into the mind of a soldier fighting far from home, describing the lives of Russian peasants trapped between two brutal antagonists, and recalling the humiliation of defeat and surrender, and the brutality of the Soviet gulags."--History Book Club Review. show lessTags
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- World War II (1939 | 1945); World War II, Eastern Front (1941-06-22 | 1945-05-05)
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