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Not like the fun and glory as it is mostly depicted in the glossed over accounts in the press

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This tanker survives to deliver an account that leaves the reader to wonder at the determination of these crewmen

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While hitler and his regime were maniacal and had myriads of evil followers who had no qualms killing little children if they were jews the bolsheviks and their heinous war criminal stalin were far worse

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The everyday soldiers who fought against the bolshevik hordes were not murderers and necessarily “nazis” a political party like the democratic party in the us but men who fought for their nation

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It is necessary to read the other side to find the mindset of those who would fight for a corrupt regime like that of the national socialist

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I liked the idea it was written by a soldier that was a tanker the language and descriptions of events i suspect were cleaned up to make the book marketable

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Also combat was much more fatal than was typical for the era almost everyone except important characters were killed when their tank was destroyed

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This memoir was his brutal and deeply personal account of the russian fronts appalling carnage