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Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army

Door Evgeni Bessonov

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#327396-XD20
Titel
Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army
Auteur
Bessonov, Evgeni
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Greenhill Books
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
1853676713
ISBN13
9781853676710
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The dramatic memoirs of a Russian tank rider on the Eastern Front. The defeat of Germany from the perspective of the Red Army. Bessonov's dramatic and uncompromisingly frank memoir reveals just what it was like to fight on the Eastern Front. There he played a key part in the crucial struggle between the Germans and Allies, and witnessed the shuddering collapse of the Third Reich. The cataclysmic battle of Kursk in 1943 put an end to Hitler's hopes of victory on the Eastern Front: it was Bessonov's first battle. From then on the Germans were forced into a long and painful retreat that ended in the ruins of Berlin in 1945. At the forefront of the drive to expel the Germans from Russia, and to push on to the gates of the Reich's capital, were men like Evgeni Bessonov. A tank rider and officer... (Lees verder) in an elite Guards unit of the Red Army, Bessonov rode tanks from Kursk, through a western Russia and Poland devastated by the Germans, right into the heart of Nazi Germany. Tank Rider" is Bessonov's unique memoir
Pagina's
254
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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