Description: This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before. In these journals, attacks and counterattacks are described in "you are there" detail.
Brief description: Christine Alexander specializes in military history.
Review Quotes: "...particularly important for two reasons. Unlike letters from the front, they were never seen by the German Army censors and so Roth was free to record his real feeling as the fighting continued. Second, because of Roth's untimely death in 1944 the journals weren't edited post-war, leaving them in their original raw state. As a result, we get a rare soldier's eye version of the fighting on a day-by-day basis.-- "History of War"