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A Stranger to Myself Stefan Schmitz

A Stranger to Myself By Stefan Schmitz

A Stranger to Myself by Stefan Schmitz


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Summary

Memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during WWII. 20-year-old Willy Peter Reese was marching in Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to the atrocities of war, he wrote his reflections in a diary, leaving behind a touching and illuminating perspective on life on the eastern front.

A Stranger to Myself Summary

A Stranger to Myself by Stefan Schmitz

A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to-and participating in-the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an intelligent, touching, and illuminating perspective on life on the eastern front. He documented the carnage perpetrated by both sides; the destruction that was exacerbated by the young soldiers' hunger, frostbite, and exhaustion; and their daily struggle to survive. And he wrestled with his own sins, with the realisation that what he and his fellow soldiers had done to civilians and enemies alike was unforgivable, with his growing awareness of the Nazi policies toward Jews, and with his deep disillusionment with himself and his fellow men.

Additional information

GOR002696610
9780374139780
0374139784
A Stranger to Myself by Stefan Schmitz
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
20051101
192
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