Condemned to Live: A Panzer Artilleryman's Five-Front War

 

Franz Frisch spent nine years in the German army; his memories of the bitter Russian wartime winters are as clear as if they happened yesterday.  Frisch, an Austrian whose family was politically left of center, spent the whole war as a private in a motorized artillery unit, seeing action in Poland, France, Russia, Sicily, and Italy, after which he was a POW for two years. He focuses less on his personal experiences than on the gritty details of daily German army life, showing that that well-equipped, formidable organization was still subject to Murphy's Law, "hurry-up-and-wait," and the other universal tribulations of soldiers.

On Waging War and Waging Survival Franz Frisch, the Post-War Years

 

Franz Frisch
Softcover 156pp Burd Street Press 2000

 

Book Code:  SA1823