With Our Backs to Berlin

by Tony Le Tissier

Book Overview

Based upon interviews with a wide-range of former German Army and SS soldiers, these unique personal episodes vividly depict the extraordinary circumstances of the Third Reich's final days as armies... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750926112
• ISBN13: 9780750926119
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Sutton Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Seldom read History

This books explores the last and bitter days of fighting from the perspective of German soldiers. The book brings new insight into the last days of the once formidible German Army. It is good story given by the common soldiers who simply fight on for undisputed loyalty or simply because they are trapped an have no other choice but to fight or die.

From those who were there!

To all those historians like myself, hearing the words from these veterans is simply priceless! This book, like many others I have read, depicts the futile struggle against the Allies from both fronts. With gripping accounts of street fighting and fire fights at point blank ranges, it will reach out to you and put you right in there shoes. These men were brave soldiers following orders to the last!

Terrific tales of terror as the war ends

Tony Le Tissier has compiled wonderful veteran accounts of the fighting in and around Berlin as the war is nearing a tragic end for the soldiers of the Heer. These stories provide good insight as to what it was like to experience the horror of combat without getting up from your armchair. Very dramatic and sad tales of loss, sacrifice, heroism, and honor are in abundance throughout the book.Contrary to what Liberal-PC extremism has been telling America and the world for years - that the Soviets were "liberators" is simply nonsense. In almost every tale there are stories of how small rearguard detachements of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS were left on suicide missions to let Rumanians, Ukrainians, Russian peasants, and Germans escape the ravaging Soviet juggernaut. While there are better books that deal with the war in the East, this book and these stories (even one Red-Army soldier has one) is worth the purchase and worth your time.

Great German Perspective

This book gives you a good feel for what it was like for the German soldiers as the third reich crumbled under the Russian offensive. There are only a few books like this, including Tale of a German Sniper and a few others.