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    Breakout at Stalingrad

    Written by Heinrich Gerlach and Carsten Gansel

    Narrated by Paul Holme

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    Stalingrad, November 1942. Lieutenant Breuer dreams of returning home for Christmas. But he and his fellow German soldiers will spend winter in a frozen hell — as snow, ice and relentless Soviet assaults reduce the once mighty Sixth Army to a diseased and starving rabble. Breakout at Stalingrad is a stark and terrifying portrait of the horrors of war and a profoundly humane depiction of comradeship in adversity.

    The book itself has an extraordinary story behind it. Its author fought at Stalingrad and was imprisoned by the Soviets. In captivity, he wrote a novel based on his experiences, which the Soviets confiscated before releasing him. Gerlach resorted to hypnosis to remember his narrative, and in 1957 it was published as The Forsaken Army. Fifty-five years later Carsten Gansel, an academic, came across the original manuscript of Gerlach's novel in a Moscow archive.

    This first translation into English of Breakout at Stalingrad includes the story of Gansel's sensational discovery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Audio
    Release dateJul 25, 2019
    ISBN9781789544855
    Author

    Heinrich Gerlach

    Heinrich Gerlach (1908–1991) served as a lieutenant in the 14th Panzer Division at Stalingrad. Wounded and then captured by the Soviets, he wrote Breakout at Stalingrad while being held in captivity in the USSR. He died in 1991.

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    • 4/5
      Very interesting and excellently written. Sometimes a bit of a slog to get through, but I think that is kind of fitting.
    • 2/5
      For a story that takes place during the biggest battle in human history there is very little combat at all in this book.

      Most of the time it’s the officers talking about how bad they have it, and why they can’t surrender. The majority of the story takes place well behind the lines.