Marching from Defeat: Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union, 1944 Neuber Claus
Marching from Defeat: Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union, 1944 Neuber Claus In June 1944, in Belarus on the Eastern Front, the Red Army launched Operation Bagration, the…
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Marching from Defeat: Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union, 1944 Neuber Claus
In June 1944, in Belarus on the Eastern Front, the Red Army launched Operation Bagration, the massive offensive that crushed Hitler's Army Group Centre. This is the story of one of them, Claus Neuber, a young artillery officer who describes in graphic detail his experiences during that great retreat.His gripping account carries the reader through the desperate defensive battles and rearguard actions fought to stem the relentless Soviet advance and to breakout from the cauldrons between Minsk and the Beresina river. German soldiers who weren't encircled and captured had to fight their way back towards their own lines across hundreds of miles of enemy territory.
After almost seventy days as a fugitive, living in the open, depending on the kindness of villagers, enduring extremes of cold, wet and hunger, and living each day with the ever-present threat of betrayal and