Vincent Hunt

Gebundenes Buch

Escape from Berlin

The Incredible Journey of the Latvian 15th SS Janums Battle Group, April 1945

Beschreibung

Abandoning positions south-east of Berlin as the Red Army approaches in 1945, a courageous Latvian Colonel leads the 900 men of his battle group on a dramatic escape through swamps and forests to surrender to the Americans.

Autor

Vincent Hunt is a documentary journalist and award-winning BBC producer. Crossing Latvia interviewing people who suffered at the hands of the KGB or fought against their system of totalitarian control he sets the political and social context of what Communism actually meant in this Baltic state: interrogation, surveillance, deportation and often death. This is his second book about Latvia's recent history, following on from Blood in the Forest - the end of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket (Helion 2017) which detailed the six desperate battles by German and Latvian forces to halt the Red Army advance into Latvia. His work explores pan-generational trauma, forgiveness and legacy, with the journey to see the landscape now an important part of understanding sorrow, loss and memorial for those left behind. His first book Fire and Ice (The History Press, 2014) was a journey across Arctic Norway meeting people affected by the Nazi scorched earth retreat of 1944 and the forced evacuation of the region. Along the way he discovered the shocking stories of 13,700 Soviet prisoners worked to death in sub-zero conditions or murdered by their Nazi captors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Helion & Company
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9781804516294
• ISBN-10: 1804516295
• Artikelnr.: 73541510