At Leningrads Gates The Story of a Soldier with Army Group North

“…a well-wrought ground level view of daily life in hell.” —World War II Magazine This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. William Lubbeck, age 19, was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1939. As a member of the 58th Infantry Division, he received his baptism of fire during the 1940 invasion of France. The following spring his division served on the left flank of Army Group North in Operation Barbarossa. After grueling marches amidst countless Russian bodies, burnt-out vehicles, and a great number of cheering Baltic civilians, Lubbeck’s unit entered the outskirts of Leningrad, making the deepest penetration of any German formation. The Germans suffered hardships the following winter as they fought both Russian counterattacks and the brutal cold. The 58th Division was thrown back and forth across the front of Army Group North...

Author: Lubbec William, Hurt David B.
ISBN: 9781935149378
Year of publication: 2010
Genre: Biographies and Memoirs
Number of pages: 296
Reading time: 4 h. 56 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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