CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)
Not as good as Hitler Moves east but still nice Tells the odissey of the 2nd phase of the invasion of Russia, and, altough not as interesting as the 1rst phase (the invasion and the failure at Moscow), the Germans keep giving the Russians a hard time, untill their horrendous defeat at Kursk. The very best on both books is the soldier's letters and comments, that places you right in the front. May 15, 2000
Scorched Earth The Russian-German War 1943-1944 This has to be one of the best books ever written on the Russian-German War. Paul Carell has a way of making you feel like you were there with the troops. Very hard to put down. I have read this book twice, and will read it somemore February 13, 2000
Excellent account of unmitigated disaster. Second volume of Carell's detailed account of the hideous conflict between Germans and Russians in the second world war. The Russians lost and lost and lost, but won. They lost 20 million souls. They prevailed. September 19, 1999
A view of the Russian Front from a front-line perspective Paul Carrell's book covers the war in Russia from the end of 1942 (post-Stalingrad)to the collapse of Army Group Center in mid-1944. The book is written from the German perspective but is intermixed with Soviet history sources and accounts. The book deals with important battles and retreats of the German armies from an individual perspective. Reading the book will make the reader truly visualize what the landsehr and the panzer forces of the German armies dealt with in trying to resist the great Soviet juggernaut. While the book may ignore attrocities and other low points of the Great War now amply covered elsewhere, it gives the reader a fascinating perspective on the war in Russia, where contrary to popular belief in the U.S., WW II was really fought. An excellent read all in all. July 17, 1999