War of My Fathers

Life Under the Death's Head

Alexander de Chastelaine (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2025
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-63624-621-5 (ISBN)

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The author’s grandfather despised the Nazis. A farmer’s son from Bavaria, a seasoned political activist and anti-fascist, he was put in a Gestapo prison for over a year, and his fingers were broken. Then they sent him to fight in a pointless war for six years and stole more than a decade of his life.

By contrast the author’s father, as a teenager and a young man, believed in Hitler and National Socialism. That’s all he knew. He had grown up and spent the entirety of his conscious life in Nazi Germany. He would fight for the man he had sworn an oath to until the very end, nearly to the last hour. Even as Germany was in flames and depleted ragtag units of old men and teenagers desperately tried to hold off the advancing Red Army and American forces, he didn’t intend to stop. He had pledged to fight for Germany to the last bullet. When the last shot from his submachine gun was fired, there were three bullets left.

This deeply personal history traces the experiences of two men who fought for the German Army on the Eastern Front during World War II—one a devoted young paratrooper, the other a former political prisoner coerced into service.

Alexander De Chastelaine is a computer engineer currently based in Sarasota, Florida. He has previously lived and worked in Europe and the Middle East; he speaks a number of modern languages fluently and can read Latin, Classical Greek, and some Semitic languages. He is the author of several published historical novels. This is his first non-fiction title.

Preface

1. Goodbye
2. The German Cowboy
3. Blood and Honor
4. In a Gestapo Prison
5. Securing the Netherlands
7. Dirlewanger
8. The Killing Pits of Krasnodar
9. Muckefuck and Scho-Ka-Kola
10. Organizing in Mayhem
11. The Razing of Warsaw
12. Collapse of the Eastern Front
13. The Iron Cross
14. Snipers on the Front
15. The Last Panzer Battle
16. The Fall of Vienna
17. Unconditional Surrender
18. On Bavarian Soil
19. American POW
20. A New Beginning

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	50–60 illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-63624-621-4 / 1636246214
ISBN-13	978-1-63624-621-5 / 9781636246215
Zustand	Neuware