In August 1942, Wigand W ster was a twenty-two-year-old officer in the German Wehrmacht. The short life expectancies of the Eastern Front made him a veteran commander even at that age. He led a battery in an artillery regiment as it approached Stalingrad for a World War II-defining clash with the Soviet Red Army. For W ster, the preceding months had been marked by heat, dust, endless marches, and brief skirmishes with the enemy--but mostly by an ongoing battle with his bullying battalion commander. Stalingrad would change everything. In this brutally honest account, W ster provides a glimpse into the Eastern Front rarely seen before. With frankness, humor, and perception, W ster takes the reader from the heady days of the German 1942 summer offensive into the icy hell of Stalingrad's final hours--and finally into his Soviet captivity. Accounts of artillery on the Eastern Front are rare, and W ster was an especially keen observer of the hell of Stalingrad. The book has been supplemented with photos and maps by Jason Mark, who originally published it through his Australia-based company Leaping Horseman Books.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 09/24/2021
ISBN: 9780811770385
Pages: 264