AN ARTILLERYMAN IN STALINGRAD

Le esperienze di guerra dell’Autore, ufficiale in comando dell’Artillerie-Regiment 171 a Stalingrado. Un resoconto onesto della realtà della guerra al fronte orientale con oltre 160 foto, 3 cartine, 3foto aeree e 6 appendici.

In August 1942, Wigand Wüster was a veteran 22-year-old officer leading an artillery battery in Artillerie-Regiment 171 (71. Inf.-Div.) as it approached Stalingrad. 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.  In this brutally honest account, Wüster provides a glimpse of the war on the Eastern Front rarely seen before. With frankness, humour and perception, Wüster takes us from the heady days of the German 1942 summer offensive to the icy hell of Stalingrad's final hours, and finally into captivity.