A Prisoner Of War In Russia
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| Author | : Maria Teresa Giusti |
| Publisher | : Central European University Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2021-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9633863562 |
This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter of 1942-43. On 230.000 Italians left on the Eastern front almost 100.000 did not come back home. Testimonies and memoirs from surviving veterans complement the author's intensive work in Russian and Italian archives. The study examines Italian war crimes against the Soviet civilian population and describes the particularly grim fate of the thousands of Italian military internees who after the 8 September 1943 Armistice had been sent to Germany and were subsequently captured by the Soviet army to be deported to the USSR. The book presents everyday life and death in the Soviet prisoner camps and explains the particularly high mortality among Italian prisoners. Giusti explores how well the system of prisoner labor, personally supervised by Stalin, was planned, starting in 1943. A special focus of the study is antifascist propaganda among prisoners and the infiltration of the Soviet security agencies in the camps. Stalin was keen to create a new cohort of supporters through the mass political reeducation of war prisoners, especially middle-class intellectuals and military élite. The book ends with the laborious diplomatic talks in 1946 and 1947 between USSR, Italy, and the Holy See for the repatriation of the surviving prisoners.
| Author | : Adelbert Holl |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2016-03-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1473856124 |
This WWII memoir of a Nazi infantryman captured at Stalingrad offers a rare firsthand account of life inside Soviet POW camps. The Battle of Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. But most of these accounts finish at the end of the battle, with columns of tens of thousands of German soldiers disappearing into Soviet captivity. Their fate is rarely described. But in After Stalingrad, German infantryman Adelbert Holl vividly recounts his seven-year ordeal as a prisoner in the Soviet camps. As Holl moves from camp to camp across the Soviet Union, he provides an unsparing view of the prison system and its population of ex-soldiers. The Soviets treated German prisoners as slave laborers, working them exhaustively, in often appalling conditions. He describes the daily life in the camps: the crowding, the dirt, the cold, the ever-present threat of disease, the forced marches, and the indifference or outright cruelty of the guards.
| Author | : Michael E. Allen |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 101 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Prisoners of war |
| ISBN | : 1428980024 |
| Author | : Nikolai Tolstoy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 520 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : William Jesser Coope |
| Publisher | : London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 1878 |
| Genre | : Balkan Peninsula |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Rolf-Dieter Müller |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781571812933 |
Provides a guide to the extensive literature on the war in the East, including largely unknown Soviet writing on the subject. Sections on policy and strategy, the military campaign, the ideologically motivated war of annihilation in the East, the occupation, and coming to terms with the results of the war offer a wealth of bibliographic citations, and include introductions detailing history of the period and related issues. For military historians, and for scholars who approach this period in history from a socio-economic or cultural perspective. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Rupert Wieloch |
| Publisher | : Casemate |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019-03-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781612007533 |
The Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War from 1918-1920 forms the backdrop to this extraordinary story of the fate of 15 British soldiers abandoned in Bolshevik Russia.
| Author | : H. R. R. Furmanski |
| Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 78 |
| Release | : 2017-02-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1787204014 |
Originally published in 1960, this compact book tells the true story of a German soldier: from his early childhood during the First World War, through to his harrowing experiences on the frontline during the Word War II, culminating in his capture by the Red Army on 20 December 1942... An astonishing first-hand account.
| Author | : Josef M. Bauer |
| Publisher | : Constable |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2011-08-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1780332866 |
Originally published in 1955, this must be one of the most dramatic adventures of our time. Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after the Second World War. Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape, enduring an 8000-mile journey across the trackless wastes of Siberia, in some of the most treacherous and inhospitable conditions on earth. Bauer's writing brilliantly evokes Forell's desperation in the prison camp, and his struggle for survival and terror of recapture as he makes his way towards the Persian frontier and freedom.
| Author | : Jozef Czapski |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2018-11-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1681372592 |
The first translation of painter and writer Józef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier Józef Czapski brought Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures, Czapski described the arc and import of Proust’s masterpiece, sketched major and minor characters in striking detail, and movingly evoked the work’s originality, depth, and beauty. Eric Karpeles has translated this brilliant and altogether unparalleled feat of the critical imagination into English for the first time, and in a thoughtful introduction he brings out how, in reckoning with Proust’s great meditation on memory, Czapski helped his fellow officers to remember that there was a world apart from the world of the camp. Proust had staked the art of the novelist against the losses of a lifetime and the imminence of death. Recalling that triumphant wager, unfolding, like Sheherazade, the intricacies of Proust’s world night after night, Czapski showed to men at the end of their tether that the past remained present and there was a future in which to hope.
