The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. Graphic firsthand accounts of the fighting have been published by soldiers of all ranks on both sides, so we have today an extraordinarily precise picture of the grim experience of the struggle from the individual's viewpoint. But most of these accounts finish at the end of the battle, with columns of tens of thousands of German soldiers disappearing into Soviet captivity. Their fate is rarely described. That is why Adelbert Holl's harrowing and vivid memoir of his seven-year ordeal as a prisoner in the Soviet camps is such an important record as well as an absorbing story.
The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942.
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"Much has been written about the battle of Stalingrad with most accounts finishing as German troops surrendered themselves to Russian forces in early 1943. Adelbert Holl's account begins in his last desperate hours before the surrender he and his comrades huddled together in their bunker preparing for an uncertain future..."--Neil Barlow "GD Aufklarung " "This series will be of equal interest to people who love reading about local history, and to the people of Alnwick as they learn about their townsfolk and how they coped during the Great War. The series should win an award"--Books Monthly
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Gorodischtsche: the collecting point for prisoners from the northern cauldron |
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The First Stages: Barbukin, Bol-Rossoschka |
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In Kissel-Jakov Transit Camp |
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From Beketovka to Kissner |
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The Monastery Camp at Jelabuga |
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2 The Emigrants and the National Committee Freies Deutschland |
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Arrested as Leader of a Band of Conspirators |
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Further as `Conspiracy Leader' |
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From Nunnery Camp to Kama Camp |
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The Dispute in the Church |
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Under the Terror of the League of German Officers |
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The Announcement of Germany's Unconditional Surrender at Nunnery Camp in Jelabuga |
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3 A White Slave of the Twentieth Century |
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The Woodland Camp of Xiltau (Kosiltau) |
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Winter in Xiltau Woodland Camp, 1945/6 |
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Christmas 1946 and its Consequences |
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Via the Main Camp from Seloni-Dolsk to Muni Camp |
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From Seloni-Dolsk to Saporoschje |
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In the Punishment Section of Camp 7100/2 |
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In Camp 7100/6: the assembling of the `Black Sheep' |
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4 Under Investigation for Refusing to Work |
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In the Rayon Prison of Saporoschje |
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In Charkov Transit Prison |
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On the Way to Siberian Banishment |
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In the Banishment Camps of the `Angarlag' west of Lake Baikal |
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Strange Encounter in the Taiga |
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A Friend Falls by the Roadside |
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An Unsuccessful Escape Attempt |
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There is No Exploitation of People by People in the Soviet Union |
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As Factotum in the Ambulatorium |
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Is This Really the Journey Home? |
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Adelbert Holl fought as an infantryman in the German 6th Army at Stalingrad during the protracted battle for the city. He was taken prisoner when the Germans surrendered and spent the next seven years in Soviet prison camps. In 1950 he was repatriated to Germany. In two outstanding volumes of memoirs - Ais Infanterist in Stalingrad and Was Geschahnach Stalingrad? - he recorded his experiences as a soldier and a prisoner of war.
Translator
During many years working in several senior official positions in Berlin - including spells as provost marshal and British governor of Spandau prison - Tony Le Tissier accumulated a vast knowledge of the Second World War on the Eastern Front. He has published a series of outstanding books on the subject including The Battle of Berlin 1945, Zhukov at the Oder, Race For the Reichstag, Berlin Battlefield Guide and The Siege of K strin 1945. He has also translated Prussian Apocalypse: The Fall of Danzig 1945, Soviet Conquest: Berlin 1945 and With Paulus at Stalingrad.
