09-30-2007, 11:28 PM
Hi Jeff,
Like you I have worked my way through those books and consider myself very lucky not to have endured what those people went through.
Another book you will find interesting, if you haven't already read it, is "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945" by Catherine Merridale. It is another book which compares the glorious myths of the war with the reality (cowardice, self-mutilation, mass rapes, etc). At present I am only half way through but it is a gripping read.
Simon
Like you I have worked my way through those books and consider myself very lucky not to have endured what those people went through.
Another book you will find interesting, if you haven't already read it, is "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945" by Catherine Merridale. It is another book which compares the glorious myths of the war with the reality (cowardice, self-mutilation, mass rapes, etc). At present I am only half way through but it is a gripping read.
Simon
