Type of bind: Hardcover
Format: Import
Label: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Page Count: 374
Printing Date: 1955
Publishing house: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Sale Popularity Level: 3602902
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I decded to read this 1955 war novel because Gerhard Weinberg in his magisterial work (A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II) said this book is "a semi-fictional account which captures the atmosphere extraordinarily well" as to the German side of the war. The novel appears to be based on the author's time in the German Army, and while the central character, a Berlin lawyer, was always against Hitler (he represented persons who had legal trouble with the regime), he never, while in the Army, did anything contrary to the sucess of the Army. The book reads smoothly and it does give a realistic picture of the war in France and in Russia and in the final days before the central character is captured or surrenders to the Britsh. The book is sparse as far as telling what things were like for civilians even tho the central character goes home on leave at various times. All in all, it is an account well worth reading, even if the fear expressed at the end of the book that some Germans would seek "to march again" now seems less portentous than it probably did when the book came out in the 1950s.
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