GERMAN INFANTRYMAN AT WAR 1939-1945

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In 1939 the German Army, with the infantry as its backbone, were probably the best-trained and best-equipped army in the world. By the long Russian winter of 1941/42 they were on an inexorable slide toward defeat. This book tells that story through the many unpublished photographs of Gerhard Sandmann, who served as an infantry soldier until he was captured in 1944, thus ensuring survival of both himself and his photographic record.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• The Universal Soldier
• Section 1 – The Preliminaries
• 1 – Joining Up
• 2 – Training
• Section 2 – The Years of Success
• 3 – War in the West
• 4 – On to Sunnier Climes
• 5 – Into Russia
• Section 3 – Living
• 6 – Battlefield Living
• 7 – Medical
• 8 – R&R
• 9 – Army of Occupation
• Section 4 – The Years of Disaster
• 10 – The End in Africa
• 11 – Northwest Europe
• 12 – Disaster in the East
• 13 – Taken Prisoner and POW
• Bibliography

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