Stalingrad by Joachim Wieder
Stalingrad in the Second World War has become a by-word for misplaced military endeavour - and courage, endurance, heroism beyond all human belief. Joachim Wieder survived the German collapse, and the subsequent years in Soviet captivity, to write his memoir of the battle in 1962. It was no routine account; he found it necessary to re-examine what motives drove the Germans on in the face of hopeless odds, why orders were issued that could only lead to certain death, the lies promulgated by high command, the whole morass of unjustified and pointless conflict. This is an absorbing evaluation of war, revised in 1993 in the light of later information on the battle, and available now in English for the first time. It was the first German book on Stalingrad to be published in the Soviet Union.
Wieder was an orderly officer in Enemy Intelligence on the staff of VIII Army, well placed to contrast and compare Russian and German tactics. Comrade and friend of Wieder for fifty years, Heinrich Graf von Einsidel helped in the researching and updating of the later edition of STALINGRAD. Wieder was an orderly officer in Enemy Intelligence on the staff of VIII Army, well placed to contrast and compare Russian and German tactics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780304363384 |
| ISBN 10 | 0304363383 |
| Title | Stalingrad |
| Author | Joachim Wieder |
| Series | Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2002-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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