num_pages: 430
description: Paris. The Somme. The Italian Campaign. The Russian Front. And inside Hitler’s bunker during The Battle of Berlin . . . World War II through the eyes of a solider of the Reich.Siegfried Knappe fought, was wounded, and survived battles in nearly every major Wehrmacht campaign. His astonishing career begins with Hitler’s rise to power—and ends with a five-year term in a Russian prison camp, after the Allies rolled victoriously into the smoking rubble of Berlin. The enormous range of Knappe’s fighting experiences provides an unrivaled combat history of World War II, and a great deal more besides.Based on Knappe’s wartime diaries, filled with 16 pages of photos he smuggled into the West at war’s end, Soldat delivers a rare opportunity for the reader to understand how a ruthless psychopath motivated an entire generation of ordinary Germans to carry out his monstrous schemes . . . and offers stunning insight into the life of a soldier in Hitler’s army.“Remarkable! World War II from inside the Wehrmacht.”— Kirkus Reviews
language: English
title: Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949
titlecomplete: Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949
genres: Germany, Biography, Memoir, Military Fiction, German Literature, War, Nonfiction, History, Military History, World War II
ratings_count: 1816
publisher: Dell Publishing Co.