Marching from Defeat: Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union, 1944

A German soldier’s graphic first—hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army’s offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944.

In June 1944, in Belarus on the Eastern Front, the Red Army launched Operation Bagration, the massive offensive that crushed Hitler’s Army Group Centre. German soldiers who weren’t encircled and captured had to fight their way back towards their own lines across hundreds of miles of enemy territory. This is the story of one of them, Claus Neuber, a y...