Five Years, Four Fronts: The War Years of Georg Grossjohann

By Georg Grossjohann

Book Overview

After Hitler's invasions of Poland and France came the Russian Front-and that's when the real war started. An infantryman who rose from the enlisted ranks to regimental command in combat, Georg... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096663893X
• ISBN13: 9780966638936
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Aegis Consulting Group
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.6" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Heartbreaker...

This one is an excellent book, with lots of nice and detailed stories, data, and more. It's hard to read and not become nostalgic, and sometimes envy, of those great men, all my respects for them, a beautiful story.

incredible insight behind 'enemy lines'

An incredible book that reveals the humanity of the 'enemy'.It makes the Germans humans, who also had feelings and fears just the same as their Allied counterparts.Traditionally, growing up in an Allied country one is tought that the Germans were all evil personified. This book gives insight to the fact that the German soldier was just an ordinary human being, being sent into battle to fight a politicians war.

Interesting book; disjointed presentation

An interesting and easy to read first person perspective from a former German officer. Grossjohann enlisted in the late 1920s and finished the war in 1945 as a major. It provides insight into what it was like to fight at the tactical level in Poland, the Russian Front, and the west. He fought against the Poles (limited action), the Russians (quite a bit), the Americans, and the French. Provides insight into the steadily decreasing capabilities of German units as the war progressed. Unfortunately the book is a bit disjointed as it jumps from experience to experience, with the odd sidebar thrown in. Fortunately there is an attempt to put Grossjohann's battles into the larger picture so the reader has some context.