Back in 1981 I commuted into NYC from my town in northeast New Jersey. I got on the bus one rainy day and sat down next to a small older man. Out of the blue he started talking to me about how he had been a corporal in Paulus' Sixth Army in Stalingrad. He was one of the four or five thousand of 100,000 captured who survived. He didn't get home until 1955. I should have gotten his name and phone number. His story would have made a good book.
Along those lines, try reading Red Road from Stalingrad, a Siberian soldier's account of his time on the eastern front during the Great Patriotic War, as the Russians called it. Four out of five Germans killed were killed on the eastern front. I think it is also available on YouTube.
