Doctor at Stalingrad

by Hans Dibold

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971385211
• ISBN13: 9780971385214
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Aberdeen
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Exceptional in its catagory

Very good book, written by somebody who is not a writer but just wants to let people know how captivity was after the collapse of the 6th Army. A true, no nonsense, no sugarcoating story that is unique in its kind. From medical standpoint, a very interesting book. He tapers off a little bit at the end and I didn't really like the way the book ended. But that does not take away the value of his expierence.

A rare view of the war

This is one of the rare first hand accounts of the fall of Stalingrad and the end of the German 6th Army. This first rate book was produced with a very high quality binding and with great care given to the choice of paper used as a reproduction. Limited numbers of these books have been printed.

A Ghastly Reality

This book is a great read and an account that portrays what it was like to fall into Russian captivity after the German surrender at Stalingrad. Be warned, this book is not for the faint hearted as the author descibes the appalling and ghastly conditions experienced as he remained in Stalingrad with the worst cases of the sick and wounded. The author creates a picture of the 'living dead' as the remnants of the Sixth Army waste away with starvation and diease as he and his fellow doctors work unrelentlessly to keep them alive. This is no easy task considering the doctors are suffering under the same conditions as that of the other German prisoners, conditions of a cruel Russian winter, no adequate warm clothing and shelter and near to nothing in way of food and medical supplies. Incredibly the author bears no grudges againsnt the Russians and at times shows them with a compassion and in a more favourable light than some of the German prisoners.Although this a book of much suffering, death and dispair, it is also a book of survival and shows the grim results of war and how man can endure such terrible conditions. Conditions of living in darkness in the Timoshenko bunker with condensation dripping off the walls, thousands of lice and rampant diseases of typhus, dysentery, scurvy to name a few and of course starvation. These conditions destroyed the soul and will to live of many. Those that survived had the ultimate courage and faith in mankind but would be tormented mentally or physically for the rest of their lives for what they experienced.A special thankyou should go to the publishers Aberdeen Books for reprinting this rare and tragic account of life after the battle of Stalingrad. This is an essential read.