It appears I've been making rookie mistakes
While I cited Robert J. Kershaw's outstanding book "War Without
Garlands-Operation Barbarossa" in the first paragraph (in the photo
description) I neglected to cite Peter Bamm's book "Unsichtbare
Flagge" (in the second paragraph)-I truly regret that since I remember
reading "Invisible Flag" some thirty years ago and loved it along with
Theodor Plievier's great novel-"Stalingrad"
Some of the other works I've been, or will quote in the photos are:
Experiences Of War The Third Reich by James Lucas
German Battle Tactics on the Russian Front-Steven H. Newton
Road To Destruction- Operation Blue-Ian Baxter
Wehrmacht Im Ostkrieg Front-Christian Hartmann (Ger.)
When Titans Clashed-David M. Glantz Jonathan M. House
Where The Iron Crosses Grow-The Crimea 1941-1944- Robert Forczyk
Hitler Moves East 1941-1943 -Paul Carell
Moskau Rshew, Orel, Minsk-Report of Army Group Centre (Ger)
Panzer Artillery Regiment 78 in Russia, 1941-1942
Diary & photos of the German 291st Infantry Division
Scorched Earth - Hitlers War In Russia-Paul Carell
Barbarossa 1941-David Glantz
Belorussia 1944. David M.Glantz
Kharkov 1942 Anatomy Of A Military Disaster-David M.Glantz
Slaughterhouse-David Glantz, Marc J. Rikmenspoel
Zhukov's Greatest Defeat-David M.Glantz
and a few more but my brain is too tired to remember them.
thanks
On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 23:39:35 +0100, "Rainer" <rainer@nomaill.de> wrote:
>I might point to the bestseller "Die unsichtbare Flagge" (English title The
>Invisible Flag) by Peter Bamm about his experiences as an army surgeon at
>the Russian front. He was a brilliant writer and - as the preword says - a
>master of the art to tell the serious in a light way. One may not expect
>that a normal translation will capture the literary class of the original.
>But I'm sure that even in a translation the recounted experiences are
>highly interesting and fascinating.
>Rainer
>"Erinnerungen" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>By the third week of the Russian campaign total casualties had
>exceeded those of the entire French Blitzkrieg in 1940. Officers were
>perishing during the initial period at the rate of 500 per week (524
>died between 22 June and the beginning of July), with 1,540 officer
>casualties occurring in the first seven days of the offensive. This
>figure represented the combined officer establishments of three German
>infantry divisions.
>At the end of July, even before the end of the battle of Minsk, almost
>17% more German soldiers had died in Russia than in France. Total
>losses were 181,000 killed, wounded and missing, compared to 154,754
>for the entire French operation. By the end of September the Germans
>had lost 518,807 casualties, or over three times the losses suffered
>during the six-week French campaign.
>The horror of becoming a casualty was all-pervasive. All-encompassing
>shock is the premier emotion engendered as a projectile tears through
>vulnerable human tissue. German medical doctor Peter Bamm, serving in
>an infantry division with Army Group South, described the impact:
>is hit he is hurled out of the fighting machine and has become, in an
>instant, utterly helpless. Up to that moment all his energy was
>himself: the sight of his own blood restores him to full
>self-awareness. At one moment he was helping to change the course of
>Following shock there is pain and fear. The wounded were often
>condemned to lie unattended for hours during intensive fighting before
>envelopes him. Will he bleed to death? Will he be found? Is he going
>to be hit again? Are the Germans retreating? Will he be captured by
>
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