Berlin Soldier
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- ISBN 9780752441733
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 165 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2005
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is an explosive memoir of a 17 year old German boy called up to fight in the last weeks of the Second World War. This is a teenager's vivid account of his experiences as a conscript during the final desperate weeks of the Third Reich, during which he experienced training immediately behind the front line east of Berlin, was caught up in the massive Soviet assault on Berlin from the Oder, retreated successfully and then took part in the fight for the western suburb of Spandau, where he became one of the only two survivors of his company of seventeen year-olds.
Helmut Altner worked for decades as the Paris correspondent of several German newspapers. Tony Le Tissier, the translator and editor, is an acknowledged expert on the 1945 battle of Berlin.
