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Bezig met laden... Siege: A Novel of the Eastern Front, 1942door Russ Schneider
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Gritty eastern front novel. ( ) A fictional Novel about German Soldiers on the eastern front is a gripping and believable tale that is well worth the read to any Military history, or period buff. The setting, subject, and details may turn off people not interested in the conflict or time period however. One of my all time favorite books. I had not heard of Schneider, an Anerican who apparently wrote two collections of short stories centred on the Russo-German war, a non-fiction piece on Germany's last stand in the east in 1945, and this work of fiction based on two minor sieges around the towns of Cholm and Velikiye Luki in the winter of 1941-1942; minor in comparison with the epic scale of Stalingrad, but for the men who lived through it, every bit as searing. Schneider does a very good job of describing the horrors of that completely unforgiving war, the reduction of men to levels devoid of any virtues except survival, the conditioning of training, and in some cases, a camaraderie variously defined and of various depths depending on the individual. The book reminded me very much of Peterson's great movie of Stalingrad with its exploration of the unimaginable through the lives and experience of ordinary people. A story of ordinary people trying to survive extraordinary circumstances of life and death, far, far from the grand geo-political schemes that put them there, and the flesh and blood and guts and horrible deaths that do not show in flags and lines drawn on strategic maps at headquarters far removed from that reality. Schneider also describes well the basic Russian approach of using soldiers simply as fodder to be expended in the absence of any real tactical planning. How many millions of individual live were snuffed out this way.... unfortunately, for the Germans, the Russians improved their tactical abilities while still being able to rely on vast reserves of manpower for overwhelming assaults; see Beevor's description of the fall of Berlin. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The events are real, the characters are fictional, the suffering and sacrifice are authentic–and unforgettable On January 21, 1942, more than five thousand exhausted German soldiers– fragments of retreating units–found themselves surrounded in the arctic northern Russian town of Cholm. Trapped in an area barely two kilometers wide, the freezing, starving men held out for 105 days, repelling endless infantry attacks and dozens of tank assaults. Fifteen hundred Germans died before relief finally arrived on May 5, but for those still able to fight, an even worse ordeal lay ahead–the siege of Fortress Velikiye Luki. Following the fates of three ordinary Germans through these epic struggles, Russ Schneider captures the ferocity and titanic cruelty of a war that pushed men to the very edge of madness. Millions perished on the Russian Front during World War II. Siege is a searing testament to the forgotten men who strove valiantly, if in vain, against impossible odds. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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