Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: The Memoir of Dr Hans Rehfeldt: Volume I - From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle

by Hans Heinz Rehfeldt

A visceral account from contemporaneous diaries of a soldier who frequently came close to death but somehow survived.

Following his Abitur (A-levels) in 1940, Rehfeldt volunteered for the Panzer Arm but was trained on the heavy mortar and heavy MG with Grossdeutschland Division.

He was on the Front from 1941 fighting for the city of Tula, south of Moscow. Battling in freezing conditions, at its lowest -52℃, the descriptions of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784383619
• ISBN13: 9781784383619
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Greenhill Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"