{"product_id":"radio-operator-on-the-eastern-erhard-steiniger-9781784386184","title":"Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940-1949","description":"\u003cb\u003eCovers fighting in Russia, the Baltics and East Prussia, as well as the author's ordeal as a Prisoner of War in Siberia, accompanied by more than one hundred previously unpublished photographs.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the true and dramatic testimony of a German grenadier during World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErhard Steiniger joined his Wehrmacht unit on 12 October 1940 as a radio operator, a role which required his constant presence with troops at the Front, right in the midst of combat. On 22 June 1941, he accompanied his division to Lithuania where he experienced the catastrophic first day of Operation Barbarossa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe later witnessed intense clashes during the conquest of the Baltic islands and the battles leading up to Leningrad on the Volkhov and Lake Ladoga. He describes the retreat from battles in Estonia, Kurland and East Prussia and his eventual surrender and captivity in Siberia. He finally returned to Germany in October 1949, a broken man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the first page to the last, this is a captivating eyewitness account of the horrors of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erhard Steiniger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1784386189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784386184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Greenhill Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d","brand":"Erhard Steiniger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43944097349887,"sku":"9781784386184","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ed928ed4-fb83-46a2-8795-0aa2dd94f3ce.jpg?v=1681501773","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/radio-operator-on-the-eastern-erhard-steiniger-9781784386184","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}