After Stalingrad. Seven years in Soviet captivity. 1943-1950
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The Wehrmacht Captain Edelbert Holle, the commander of the infantry company, talks about how his fate developed after the encirclement near Stalingrad in the winter of 1943. Based on the personal records that the author conducted in the first years of the war and for seven years of captivity, he lively and vividly describes the merciless “death marches” along the snowy steppes of the Volga region, the transportation of prisoners of war in Elabuga, the difficult epidemic of typhoid, whose victims were more than a thousand victims German officers. Captain Holle in detail documents the harsh military and post -war years spent on logging in Prikamye and other enterprises of the Soviet Union, describes the conditions of transit prisons, the work on the construction of the railway in the Irkutsk region - a life in captivity, which was brightened only for support for comrades and the hope of returning home
Author:
Author:Holle Edelbert
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Military Books
- Category:Historical Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:newspaper
Series:
Series: behind the front line. Memoirs
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
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