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#1: Looking for some books... Author: mooxe,

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:20 am
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I am looking for books of 1st hand accounts from Axis soldiers in WW2. Non-fiction and non-propaganda. Any nationality except German, preferably Japanese. They seem to be hard to find... anyone know of some good ones? Also looking for books by Russian soldiers.

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#2: Author: diggin.robat, Location: Land of the krauts

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:13 am
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Oh, there are a lot of them, but written in german.
Try to find:

Hasso G. Stachow, If this be Glory.Publ. 1982. ISBN: 0385159749

It´s the story of a young german soldier on the eastern front, as narrated by himself and written by the author. It is authentic, but not a classical first person account.

diggin

#3: Author: Chym, Location: France

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:49 am
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I warmly recommend to you : "Le soldat oublié" ("The forgotten soldier") from Guy SAJER, first written in french , about a young french alsacian engaged as rifleman in the Grossdeutschland Division from 42 to 45.

here is a link with it translated :
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Guy%20Sajer

Chym

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#4: Author: Dima,

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:28 pm
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from the top of my head:

Benno Zieser / The Road to Stalingrad. (http://www.amazon.com/road-Stalingrad-Benno-Zieser/dp/B0007DPKSM)

Gottlob Biederman / In deadly combat. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Combat-Soldiers-Eastern-Studies/dp/0700611223)

#5: Author: Polemarchos, Location: Polemarchopolis

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:16 pm
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The Kapetanios: Partisans and Civil War in Greece, 1943-49 (paper back)
Dominique Eudes (Author), J. Howe (Translator)

Communist perspective, but soft bias only

edit:
upps thats allied side.... sorry

#6: Author: schrecken, Location: Sydney, Australia

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:09 pm
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I'd also recommend "Le soldat oublié" ("The forgotten soldier") from Guy SAJER

#7: Author: RedScorpion, Location: Neverland

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:58 pm
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Dima wrote:

from the top of my head:

Benno Zieser / The Road to Stalingrad. (http://www.amazon.com/road-Stalingrad-Benno-Zieser/dp/B0007DPKSM)

Gottlob Biederman / In deadly combat. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Combat-Soldiers-Eastern-Studies/dp/0700611223)

mooxe wrote:

Any nationality except German, preferably Japanese.

#8: Author: CSO_Linebacker,

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:10 pm
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It Never Snows In September.

An excellent view of Market Garden from the German side.

Sorry, just saw your caveat about nationalities. I'll see what I can dig up

#9: Author: Dima,

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:49 am
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uhh, RS, u've shamed me Sad

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some italian and japanese then:

Eugenio Corti / Few Returned (http://www.amazon.com/Few-Returned-Twenty-Eight-Russian-1942-1943/dp/0826211151)

Eugenio Corti / The Last Soldiers of the King (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Soldiers-King-Wartime-1943-1945/dp/0826214916)

Tameichi Hara / Japanese Destroyer Captain (http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Destroyer-Captain-Tameichi-Hara/dp/034531767X)

Saburo Sakai / Samurai! (http://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Saburo-Sakai/dp/0743412834)

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