SOLDATEN: ON FIGHTING KILLING AND DYING (PB)

This book explodes many of the myths that we hold on to about Germany and its people during the War, offering a shocking and profoundly illuminating portrait of the typical German soldier of the time: their thoughts, their feelings and their ideologies. The authors discovered 150,000 pages of transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war, of which approximately one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain. These transcriptions are unmediated, uncensored, and unselfconsciously candid and that is what gives this book its historical significance and extraordinary impact.