-- Includes more than 150 color and black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and maps-- Uses a wealth of primary source material, including personal letters and diariesWWII German Infantryman examines the life of the average landser, the German foot soldier, who -- in the remote likelihood that he survived -- could have fought through the blitzkrieg, in the North African desert, and in the horrific frozen wastes of Russia against the most implacable foes. Using archival and reenactment photographs and contemporary accounts in official documents, letters, diaries, and contemporary reportage, this book portrays what it was like for ordinary men to be thrust into battle and into the most extreme conditions they had ever had to face.
- ISBN10 1574883925
- ISBN13 9781574883923
- Publish Date 22 January 2009 (first published 31 March 2002)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 11 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Potomac Books Inc
- Imprint Brassey's US
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English