Dlouhá cesta z východní fronty - Unikátní svědectví německého vojáka z bojů v Rusku – John-Ferrer F. (2024)

The horrors that Josef Brosik experienced during the battles on the Eastern Front were unlike anything he had ever faced before or would ever face again. He witnessed merciless clashes with the enemy, the deaths of friends, and endured hunger and biting cold. What he saw etched itself deeply into his memory and comes alive again in this book. In recounting the fates of German soldiers in Russia, he neither conceals nor embellishes anything. He recalls the brutality of the fighting, the enormous human losses, as nearly his entire regiment was destroyed right after the first contact with the enemy. He survived then as one of the few. Subsequently, he becomes a liaison, a favored but demanding role. Through it, he meets many units and officers and learns much more about the conditions on the Eastern Front than his friends. Because he speaks Russian, he soon knows quite a bit about what the civilian population and Russian soldiers think. Josef Brosik sees the death of his comrades, unexpectedly reunites with others... Everyone wants to know the answer to the question: 'When will this endless war end?'