This is the second book by Faust and is about the retreat from the eastern front. He describes in very graphic detail a small portion of the retreat and the attacks by the Red army. It is absolutely brutal. And desperate. It pretty much matches other books about the retreat but is much more 'I was there' graphic in its descriptions and is not sterile as are many military histories.
Worth a read if you are interested in that time and place.
I have met men on both sides of that front and all they would seem to say about it was that it was brutal.
add: Of interest is the descriptions of Soviet armor. The Josef Stalin tank and the SU tank, larger than the German Tiger. Also the description of an attack on the German Tigers by an enemy with a flamethrower which looked like it was on a rifle. Possibly a Mosin-Nagant "Rifle-flamethrower" as mentioned on page 670 of the Mosin-Nagant book I believe I previously mentioned in this forum.
Last edited by g5m; 10/08/19.
