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“And then you want to work for the Russians?” they exclaim.

“I have been very interested to hear your opinion of your allies,” I reply. “Of course I have not said a word about what I think, I have only answered the question you put to me.”

The subject of Russia is never brought up in my presence.

I am flown back to the camp in France where I continue to be interned for a short time. The efforts of German doctors are finally successful in effecting a transfer to a hospital camp. Niermann has been released some days before in the British zone. He has several times wangled it so that he can stay with me, but he cannot put it over any longer. Within a week of leaving the French camp I am on an ambulance train which is supposed to be going to a hospital on the Starnbergersee. At Augsburg the engine turns round and steams into Fürth. Here in a military hospital in April 1946 I succeed in obtaining my release.

As one of the millions of soldiers who has done his duty and by the grace of providence has had the great good fortune to survive this war, I have written my experiences of the war against the U.S.S.R. in which the youth of Germany and many convinced Europeans laid down their lives. This book is no glorification of war nor a rehabilitation of a certain group of persons and their orders. Let my experiences alone speak with the voice of truth.

I dedicate this book to the dead in this war and to youth. This new generation now lives in the frightful chaos of the postwar period. May it, nevertheless, keep alive its faith in the fatherland and its hope in the future; for only he is lost who gives himself up for lost!

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Read
Reach for the Sky
, the story of Douglas Bader’s triumphant courage that overcame the peacetime loss of both his legs so thor oughly that when his country was attacked, he became an R.A.F. Wing Commander fighting the Battle of Britain. Another great book in the Bantam War Book Series.

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Table of Contents

ATTACK!

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

1. FROM UMBRELLA TO DIVE BOMBER

2. WAR AGAINST THE SOVIETS

3. BAD WEATHER FLYING

4. THE BATTLE FOR THE FORTRESS OF LENINGRAD

5. BEFORE MOSCOW

6. TRAINING AND PRACTICE

7. STALINGRAD

8. WITHDRAWAL

9. STUKA VERSUS TANK

10. ON THE KUBAN AND AT BJELGOROD

11. BACK TO THE DNIEPER

12. FURTHER WESTWARD

13. RETREAT TO THE DNIESTER

14. FATEFUL SUMMER 1944

15. BATTLE FOR HUNGARY

16. CHRISTMAS 1944

17. THE DEATH STRUGGLE OF THE LAST MONTHS

18. THE END