In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front (Authored by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/317766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front Author: Gottlob Herbert Bidermann Narrator: Paul Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 1 minute Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Gottlob Herbert Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war in the Courland Pocket. In his memoir, he shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape. He recalls a Christmas gift of gingerbread from home that overcame the stench of battle, an Easter celebrated with a basket of Russian hand grenades for eggs, and his miraculous survival of machine gun fire at close range. In closing he relives the humiliation of surrender to an enemy whom the Germans had once derided and offers a sobering glimpse into life in the Soviet gulags. Bidermann's account debunks the myth of a highly mechanized German army that rolled over weaker opponents with impunity. Despite the vast expanses of territory captured by the Germans during the early months of Operation Barbarossa, the war with Russia remained tenuous and unforgiving. His story commits that living hell to the annals of World War II and broadens our understanding of its most deadly combat zone.