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WW2 Today

This is a book that sheds light upon the best and worst of the human condition. It stands as testament to the baseness of mankind as well as the astonishing levels to which it may rise; both its greatest strength and its limitation. Busch’s book is disturbing and thought provoking and is a memorial to those who sacrificed for their country and their comrades.

The Military Reviewer, Chris Buckham

This important work reconstructs the grim fate of the 6th Army in full for the first time by examining the little-known story of the field hospitals and central dressing stations. Reinhold Busch trawled through hundreds of previously unpublished reports, interviews, diaries and newspaper accounts to reveal the experiences of soldiers of all ranks, from simple soldiers to generals...
Highly recommended for the depth and range of first hand accounts it includes, this title was originally published in German in 2012 as Der Untergang der 6. Armee.

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Recollections of WWII

There have been very few books in the English language about the
battle for Stalingrad. This book is therefore most welcome and
adds greatly to the available pool of information.
Highly Recommended.

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Firetrench

Beguiling in its honesty and the matter of fact tone of the accounts. I find it amazing the hold that the Nazi regime had over these men and their willingness to go through such hardship for the cause. No bitterness and very little rancour. They saw it as doing their duty for the fatherland. Ordinary men placed in an extraordinary set of circumstances. like the recently published "Soldaten" a great although brutal collection of recollections vital to the understanding of the conflict on the Eastern Front. The account of a Russian nurse transfusing her own blood into the shattered body of a German soldier, saving his life, will live with me for a long time. Excellent.

Amazon Reviewer, Sion Hughes

A very moving, sometimes disturbing book in which Stalingrad veterans relate the immeasurable degradation and good or bad fate they experienced in this most savage of battles. The integrity of the participants when writing down their personal stories only adds to the power of this book. You will remember this book long after you have put it in your book shelf!

Amazon Reviewer

'Survivors of Stalingrad' underlines the grim determination of the Germans. Busch has done a commendable job in compiling a range of accounts, many from the relatively lower ranks. The result is a solid if disquieting addition to the literature on Stalingrad.

Military History

‘This is a truly valuable addition to the available English-language literature on the Battle for Stalingrad . . . There are vignettes here that will stay with you for a long time. The young infantryman, for instance, eager for combat, who pushed his way to the front of the queue to be transported to Stalingrad, only to rue his keenness when he realized that he had hastened into a murderous trap. Or the gravely injured soldier who is given a blood transfusion, and to his astonishment sees that the donor is his Russian doctor . . . it is a book that deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in the war on the Eastern Front, or indeed in the Second World War in general.’

Roger Moorhouse, author of Berlin at War