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A stranger to myself : the inhumanity of war : Russia, 1941-1944 / Willy Peter Reese ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann ; edited by Stefan Schmitz ; foreword by Max Hastings.
LIBRA - Special D764 .R41713 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reese, Willy Peter.
- Standardized Title:
- Mir selber seltsam fremd. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Reese, Willy Peter.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- Soldiers--Germany--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- German.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 176 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
- Summary:
- Reese was 20 when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of World War II, he recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an illuminating perspective.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176).
- ISBN:
- 0374139784
- OCLC:
- 59711880
- Publisher Number:
- 9780374139780
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