Description: The author could be described as a "veteran" in every sense of the word, even though he was only aged twenty-one when the war ended. Armin Scheiderbauer served as an infantry officer with the 252nd Infantry Division, German Army, and saw four years of bitter combat on the Eastern Front, being wounded six times.
This is an outstanding personal memoir, written with great thoughtfulness and honesty. Scheiderbauer joined his unit during the winter of 1941/42, and during the following years saw fierce combat in many of the largest battles on the Eastern Front. His experiences of the 1943-45 period are particularly noteworthy, including his recollections of the massive Soviet offensives of summer 1944 and January 1945. Participating in the bitter battles in East Prussia, he was captured by the Soviets and not released until 1947. Adventures in my Youth is a unique memoir--the author originally wrote it only for his daughter. It has never been published in any language, until now.Brief description: James A. Gillies has been a familiar voice across BBC television and radio for nearly a quarter of a century. He has worked as an actor, continuity announcer, program narrator, and newsreader, even reading the Shipping Forecast. Trained at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire in the 1970s, he taught speech and drama and theater studies for much of the next decade, developing many of the country's first school examinations in the subject. Finding himself in demand as a professional voice actor along the way, he was recruited by the BBC in the early 1990s. In 2013, he left in order to concentrate on his favorite part of the job: performance and, in particular, storytelling. Since then he has been in demand worldwide, recording generally one audiobook per month, voicing television ads in the U.K., U.S., Russia, Scandinavia, and the Middle East, and providing voice tracks for television, film, gaming, and on Ulineprojects. James lives with his wife, a former orchestral violist turned book editor, and two Norwegian Forest cats in the picturesque old weaving village of Kilbarchan in the beautiful West of Scotland.