Artilleryman in Stalingrad: A Soldier's Story at the Turning Point of World War II

By Wster Wigand and Wigand Wüster

In August 1942, Wigand W ster was a twenty-two-year-old officer in the German Wehrmacht. The short life expectancies of the Eastern Front made him a veteran commander even at that age. He led a battery in an artillery regiment as it approached Stalingrad for a World War II-defining clash with the Soviet Red Army. For W ster, the preceding months had been marked by heat, dust, endless marches, and brief skirmishes with the enemy--but mostly by an ongoing battle with his bullying battalion commander. Stalingrad would change everything.

In this brutally honest account, W ster provides a glimpse into the Eastern Front rarely seen before. With frankness, humor, and perception, W ster takes the reader from the heady days of the German 1942 summer offensive into the icy hell of Stalingrad's final hours--and finally into his Soviet captivity. Accounts of artillery on the Eastern Front are rare, and W ster was an especially keen observer of the hell of Stalingrad.

The book has been supplemented with photos and maps by Jason Mark, who originally published it through his Australia-based company Leaping Horseman Books.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811770389
• ISBN13: 9780811770385
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"