Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
By: Andreas Hartinger
4.53
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
The veteran tells his grandson about his World War II experiences, without pathos, but with grippin…
Want to Read $ 7.99"Rough nature shapes tough people"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
"On, onward ... until the eyes shut …"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
"Only those who really experienced the war will want to preserve peace with all their might"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
"War always claims the best. Those selfless fighters who at all times, in life, in death, in victory or defeat, establish the ethos of pure comradeship and genuine soldierhood"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
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1. Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir (Wolfgang Faust's Panzer Books)
By: Wolfgang Faust
4.01
Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition
Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing … read more
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2. The Forgotten Soldier
By: Guy Sajer
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
Forgotten Soldier recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the ey… read more
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"The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
"No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
"Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
"And I can remember a tear running down my frozen cheek—a tear neither of pain nor of joy but of emotion created by intense experience."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
3. Tigers In The Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
By: Otto Carius
4.06
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the mo… read more
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4. After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War
By: Tony Le Tissier , Adelbert Holl
3.98
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
This WWII memoir of a Nazi infantryman captured at Stalingrad offers a rare firsthand account of li… read more
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5. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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6. The Last Panther - Slaughter of the Reich - The Halbe Kessel 1945
By: Wolfgang Faust , Sprech Media
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
While the Battle of Berlin in 1945 is widely known, the horrific story of the Halbe Kessel remains … read more
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7. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge
4.47
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more
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"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
8. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
By: Günter K. Koschorrek
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Kos… read more
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9. Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
By: William Marvel , None , None
3.64
Format: 288 pages,
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10. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
By: Dave Grossman
3.63
Format: 56 pages,
The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundre… read more
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11. Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
By: Max Hastings
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
World-renowned British historian Sir Max Hastings recounts one of the most horrific months of World… read more
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12. China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II
By: Stephen E. Ambrose , Eugene B. Sledge
4.28
Format: None pages,
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13. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
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- audiobook
14. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
15. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
By: Burkhard Bilger
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more
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16. Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940–1949
By: Erhard Steiniger
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the true and dramatic testimony of a German grenadier during World War II. read more
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17. The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand
By: Andrew Biggio
4.70
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is an inspirational story and hero’s journey of a 28-… read more
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18. Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross
By: Albrecht Wacker
4.20
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of t… read more
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19. Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
By: Andreas Hartinger
4.53
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
The veteran tells his grandson about his World War II experiences, without pathos, but with grippin… read more
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- world war ii
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Rough nature shapes tough people"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
"On, onward ... until the eyes shut …"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
"Only those who really experienced the war will want to preserve peace with all their might"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
"War always claims the best. Those selfless fighters who at all times, in life, in death, in victory or defeat, establish the ethos of pure comradeship and genuine soldierhood"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
20. Für Volk and Führer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
By: Erwin Bartmann
4.26
Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition
Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated… read more
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21. The Combat Diaries: True Stories from the Frontlines of World War II
By: Mike Guardia
4.40
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
From the beaches of Normandy to the shores of Iwo Jima. Harrowing tales of combat…as told by the me… read more
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22. Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
By: Richard Freiherr von Rosen
4.36
Format: 712 pages, Kindle Edition
A richly illustrated memoir by highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier—“recommended to anyone with an in… read more
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23. Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front. Volume II: Russia, Hungary, Lithuania, and the Battle for East Prussia
By: Hans Heinz Rehfeldt
4.50
Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition
This second volume of a Nazi soldier's WWII diary continues the chronicle of his experiences on the… read more
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24. Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front Volume I: From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle
By: Hans Heinz Rehfeldt
4.37
Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition
A visceral account from contemporaneous diaries of a soldier who frequently came close to death but… read more
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25. D-Day Tank Hunter: The World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from North Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy
By: Hans Hoeller
4.52
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the last German veterans of World War II recounts his wartime experiences - with the harrowi… read more
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26. No Place To Lay My Head: A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War Two (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two)
By: Anthony Richardson
4.22
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
The eye-opening account of the forgotten and tumultuous Eastern Front in World War Two.Perfect for … read more
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27. Normandy to Nazi Surrender: Firsthand Account of a P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot
By: Colonel Van H. Slayden
3.82
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
"Slayden piloted the Army's flying tank from the Battle of the Bulge into the heart of Germany, tel… read more
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28. Born Under a Lucky Star: A Red Army Soldier's Recollections of the Eastern Front of World War II
By: Ivan Philippovich Makarov
4.26
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
History is written by the victors, but the harsh reality of war can only be depicted by its soldier… read more
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29. The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron
By: Eberhard Baumgart
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army … read more
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30. Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945
By: John Stieber
4.31
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
John Stieber was twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germa… read more
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31. Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot
By: Helmut Mahlke
4.12
Format: 519 pages, Kindle Edition
“Well-written and holds the reader’s attention . . . an engaging book and a rare personal view of f… read more
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