Frontsoldaten
Subtitle: The German Soldier in World War II
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780813109435
Subjects: European history: Second World War; World history: Second World War; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military History - World War II; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Germany; Europe - Germany; Military - World War II
First sentence: Burrowed deep into the snowbound desolation of the late Russian winter, shaken and exhausted by the horrors of the "ghostly weeks of defensive battles" that had just passed, Gunter von Scheven in March 1942 nonetheless exalted the German Landser (foot soldier or infantry man).