Upcoming Books #21

Mdshakil

We are back to book recommendations and for this issue I have selected two novels, the first is on a theme that I like and the second is the book from which they based the film of the same name, which I saw recently and appreciated. The other two books are a document on the Second World War, which sheds light on German soldiers, and the other is an essay, a book-reportage that lets us get to know the common people of distant China up close. Soldiers. Fighting Killing Dying by Sönke Neitzel Harald Welzer SoldiersDuring World War II, the British and Americans systematically intercepted the conversations of thousands of German prisoners.


They recorded the most interesting passages on vinyl and made printed copies, filling over 150 thousand pages of minutes. These minutes remained kept for decades in the state archives in London and Washington and were discovered and examined for the first time by a Phone Number Data historian, Sönke Neitzel, and a psychologist, Harald Welzer, only starting from the end of the nineties . It is a one-of-a-kind documentation, both for the quality of the contents and for the enormous quantity of material, and offers an unprecedented and shocking interpretation of the war, its horrors and the soul of those called to fight it.




Without knowing they are being listened to, Wehrmacht soldiers and officers speak freely and compete with each other to prove that they were more brutal and ruthless than the others. They reveal military secrets and tactical details, discuss weapons and military operations, but also express their opinion on Hitler, on enemies, on the war, on the SS, on the extermination of the Jews. Above all, they express their feelings without inhibitions during the actions and the pleasure they felt in the cruelest killings. “Soldaten” gives us for the first time with this breadth, depth and strength the image of the war as it was experienced by those who fought.