Luis Raffeiner

Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front

A German Soldier s Memoir of War and Captivity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thought-provoking eyewitness account of the Second World War on the Eastern Front by a common German soldier.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781399097703
• ISBN-10: 1399097709
• Artikelnr.: 62257721

Autorenporträt

Luis Raffeiner grew up in Karthaus in the South Tyrolean Schnalstal. In 1939, aged 22, after serving in the Italian army, he transferred to the Wehrmacht. As a tank mechanic in a unit of assault guns, he went to war against the Soviet Union in 1941. He was captured by the Red Army, survived being held as a prisoner of war in the Caucasus and, in 1947, returned to the Tyrol. He then worked as a master plumber at a brewery and set up his own company. Late in his life he recorded his wartime experiences which were published in German and are now available for the first time in English in this edition.