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Originally published in 1960, this compact book tells the true story of a German soldier: from his early childhood during the First World War, through to his harrowing experiences on the frontline during the Word War II, culminating in his capture by the Red Army on 20 December 1942... An astonishing first-hand account.
Author : Maria Teresa Giusti Publisher : Central European University Press Page : 388 pages File Size : 44,7 Mb Release : 2021-04-30 Category : History ISBN : 9789633863565
Stalin's Italian Prisoners of War by Maria Teresa Giusti Pdf
This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter of 1942-43. On 230.000 Italians left on the Eastern front almost 100.000 did not come back home. Testimonies and memoirs from surviving veterans complement the author's intensive work in Russian and Italian archives. The study examines Italian war crimes against the Soviet civilian population and describes the particularly grim fate of the thousands of Italian military internees who after the 8 September 1943 Armistice had been sent to Germany and were subsequently captured by the Soviet army to be deported to the USSR. The book presents everyday life and death in the Soviet prisoner camps and explains the particularly high mortality among Italian prisoners. Giusti explores how well the system of prisoner labor, personally supervised by Stalin, was planned, starting in 1943. A special focus of the study is antifascist propaganda among prisoners and the infiltration of the Soviet security agencies in the camps. Stalin was keen to create a new cohort of supporters through the mass political reeducation of war prisoners, especially middle-class intellectuals and military élite. The book ends with the laborious diplomatic talks in 1946 and 1947 between USSR, Italy, and the Holy See for the repatriation of the surviving prisoners.
A Prisoner of War in Russia by William Jesser Coope Pdf
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A Prisoner of War in Russia by William Jesser Coope Pdf
Excerpt from A Prisoner of War in Russia: My Experiences Amongst the Refugees, With the Red Crescent Sickening sights - The ravages of war - Kutchuk Ova - A dressing-shed - We meet a train of wounded - Hungarian doctors - Shipka in the distance An artillery duel Kesanlik A ruined town - We ride to Shipka - Captain Fyfe, British commissioner with the Shipka army - Describes the military position - A gal lant Campbell who led the storming party when Fort Nicholas was taken - Close quarters - An invitation to breakfast - The Turkish battalions shout for their Padishah. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Prisoner of War in Russia by William Jesser Coope Pdf
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Early in World War I, during a freezing winter battle on the eastern front in the Caucasus, Russian troops captured a young Turkish officer whose unit was badly outnumbered and undersupplied. This rare account is Mehmet Arif Olcen's story of what followed: his three years as a prisoner of war in the small town of Varnavino, east of Moscow on the Vetluga River. Mehmet Arif and the other prisoners were given considerable freedom to form friendships with the local people, and Mehmet, who recorded his feelings and observations in a pocket notebook, was a keen observer. His descriptions of the hardships of the war in a remote Russian town present a vivid and compassionate picture of the ordinary people during the last years of Czarist Russia and of the chaos they experienced during the Bolshevik Revolution. More than a personal reminiscence, Vetluga Memoir is also a historical document that describes a lost episode during World War I - the political and strategic mistakes made by the Ottoman Third Army - and the final days of one corner of the Czarist empire. The author's son, Ali Nejat, offers an overview of the problems that the Ottoman Empire faced in the years preceding the war and notes that Mehmet's insights about Bolshevism foretell, with ironic commentary, the recent collapse of the Soviet Union.
A Prisoner of War in Russia by William Jesser Coope Pdf
Excerpt from A Prisoner of War in Russia: My Experiences Amongst the Refugees, With the Red Crescent Gallipoli - Baron Zubovitz - His ride from Vienna to Paris - His inflated saddles - Intends to swim the Bosphorus - Hungarian legion - The empty Golden Horn - Hammals - Herculean strength - The dogs in my street - An interesting canine event - Proposed kid-glove manufactory - The proposal rejected with horror. The following pages will consist partly of what I have myself actually seen or heard, and partly of what I have thought - that is, of reflections on what I consider myself to have observed. It smacks, perhaps, of presumption in me, after an acquaintance with Turkey (on this my latest visit) of little more than six months, to obtrude a judgment upon so wide and complex a subject as the character, condition, and capabilities of the races that people it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Michael E. Allen Publisher : DIANE Publishing Page : 101 pages File Size : 40,8 Mb Release : 2005 Category : Prisoners of war ISBN : 9781428980020
Fighting for Napoleon's Army in Russia by C J Wagevier Pdf
In 1812 the French emperor Napoleon decided to invade Russia. For this purpose, he gathered an army of half a million men and women, consisting of soldiers from all nationalities, including French, German and Italian. Serving in this army was Carel Johannes Wagevier, an officer in the 125th Regiment of the Line, which was staffed by mostly Dutch soldiers. Full of confidence, they went to war and began the long journey to the East. What followed was a horrific expedition deep into the Russian interior, a chaotic retreat, and captivity. Just like his fellow soldiers, Wagevier endured the cold, the stresses of combat, and the hunger that besieged the army. After fighting at the battle of Berezina in November 1812, he was taken prisoner and transported all the way to the Russian interior. In 1814 he and his remaining fellow officers were released, and together they started the journey back home. During his travels across Russia, he made notes of events that occurred or meetings that seemed memorable, including ones of unexpected generosity as well as sudden cruelty. These notes were later expanded into his memoir and published in 1820. Now, for the first time ever, they have been translated into English, providing a unique and fascinating insight into the life of a solider in Napoleon’s army.
This WWII memoir of a Nazi infantryman captured at Stalingrad offers a rare firsthand account of life inside Soviet POW camps. The Battle of Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. But most of these accounts finish at the end of the battle, with columns of tens of thousands of German soldiers disappearing into Soviet captivity. Their fate is rarely described. But in After Stalingrad, German infantryman Adelbert Holl vividly recounts his seven-year ordeal as a prisoner in the Soviet camps. As Holl moves from camp to camp across the Soviet Union, he provides an unsparing view of the prison system and its population of ex-soldiers. The Soviets treated German prisoners as slave laborers, working them exhaustively, in often appalling conditions. He describes the daily life in the camps: the crowding, the dirt, the cold, the ever-present threat of disease, the forced marches, and the indifference or outright cruelty of the guards.
This book tells the shocking true story of trials of an anonymous German soldier who, having been captured by Russian forces in 1945, was forced to endure the Gulag system. The author of the book hailed from the Ruhr region in western Germany, and was drafted in the German army in 1943, a keen and devout Christian with no great love for Hitler or the Nazis. Sent to the Eastern front he fought against grim odds as the Red Army advanced; always pushed back, he and his comrades formed part of the last defenders of Berlin. Eager to avenge themselves, the Russians sent many Germans far to the east, to work off their blood-debt in Siberia or die in the attempt. The author recounts the horrors of the freezing conditions, meagre food and brutal treatment of the prisoners of war. Sustained by his religious faith in the face of the unimaginable hardship, he endured three years in the camps, and survived to emigrate to America.