War in the Caucasus. Breakthrough. Memoirs of the commander of the mountain rangers" artillery division. 1942-1943

Major von Ernsthausen, commander of one of the divisions of the 81st artillery regiment of the 97th Elegant (Hecheric) division, in his memoirs describes the offensive of the Army Group & QUOT, A & QUOT, in the spring of 1942 from the Seversky Donets to the Caucasus, the persecution of the evaded environment of the Soviet troops, battles With them - an exhausting mountain war and retreat on the Kuban bridgehead in 1943. In public consciousness, this campaign did not find appropriate attention only because it was overshadowed by a larger tragedy of Stalingrad. The author gives an idea of ​​the landscape and people, describes the battles, in which infantry, artillery, sappers, sanitary cars and & quot, hii & quot, - & quot, voluntary assistants & quot, Wehrmacht, while the reader passes the entire imperious soldier life - a mixture of heroism and a smallness, glimpses Board and humor and front-line fraternity