A German General on the Eastern Front

The Eastern Front, 1941\. Operation Barbarossa. HitlerÃs armies advance into the Soviet Union to conquer Lebensraum in the East. Among the corps commanders is General Gotthard Heinrici, a career soldier, a highly decorated First World War veteran, who observed and recorded in his diary and letters the unprecedented harshness of the German conduct of the campaign. With remarkable candour he described his experiences at the front and the everyday lives of the troops under his command - and the appalling conditions in which the war was fought. In his writings he revealed his growing doubts about Hitler\'s strategy and his mounting concern as the Wehrmacht was implicated in war crimes and the first actions of the Holocaust. This selection from Heinrici's diaries and letters, edited and with a perceptive introduction by Johannes HŸrter, gives a fascinating inside view of the fighting on the Eastern Front from a commander's perspective. It is also provides an unusual insight into the feelings, attitudes and acute anxieties of one of the Wehrmacht's most able generals in the midst of a brutal campaign.

ISBN:	9781399082815
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Military
Imprint:	Pen & Sword Military
Published date:	30 Nov 2021
DEWEY:	940.54217092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	176
Weight:	312g
Height:	164mm
Width:	233mm
Spine width:	18mm

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