A TASTE OF WAR: EYEWITNESS
ACCOUNTS OF WORLD WAR II
Edited by Harold E Straubing
Includes personal accounts of the Fall of France, Shanghai
1941, Recruitment and training, Land War in North Africa and the
Russian Front, The Air War from the perspective of a Luftwaffe Ace
and a US Marine pilot, and the experiences of POWs. The author
looks at the Home Fronts in Tokyo and the UK, the War's end
including the scenes in Hitler's Bunker and Japan, and Occupation
- the German view of the Soviets and the Americans.
The author, a Ukrainian aged 16 in 1944, was pressed into the
German Army to help make up the crippling losses on the Eastern
Front. Transported to Austria and trained to fight, he found
himself in action at the front and was wounded. After service in
Poland and Yugoslavia he became a POW of the British.
