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Metelmann, Henry. THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER: A DRAMATIC FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF FIGHTING WITH THE WEHRMACHT.
Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, 1990, first edition.
208 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1852602716 B&w photographs. "Henry Metelmann was eighteen when he joined a Panzer division. Like most Germans of his generation he was a committed National Socialist and had been in t he Hitler Youth....In the first, euphoric phase of Operation Barbarossa, and drunk on victory, the mighty Wehrmacht swept all before it....Metelmann had first-hand experience of the brutal impact of war on the lives of ordinary people; billete d a m o n g Russian peasants, he slowly came to question his own perceptions about the justness of this savage war....Almost incredibly, Metelmann survived the fighting in Russia, and spent the final days of the war in a forlorn, last ditch attempt t o h al t th e invading Allied forces, in impossible conditions and against overwhelming odds. Captured and made a prisoner of war, he was sent to America, where he had time to reflect on the part he had played in one of mankind's most horrible str ug gle s. R esi dent in Britain since 1948, he has now written this story of tenacity in the face of great suffering, as a tribute to all those who were victim's of mankind's inhumanity in the Second World War." Pages are browning very lightly , mi nor rub bin g t o bo ards, light browning to edges of textblock - darker on most of the fore-edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, has light rubbing, minor edge wear/wrinkling. VG/VG
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