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Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust [All-Region] 2 reviews
why pay more?
+ Outstanding, and the best I've seen in video
I was a bit hesitant to by this particular Korean make. But the risk paid off. The picture is excellent and the subtitles--English, Korean, etc.--are easily removeable and switchable. So don't get ripped off by those who have you over a barrel at $149.00?!
As for the film itself: it is one of ...
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary 59 reviews Anonymous
Picador, 2006
In Your Face
+ Moving and Raw + Diary that brings you to Berlin + best read + Remarkable, Touching Story by a Woman Who Endured Hell
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Fateless Nagy, Dora
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The Fall of Berlin 1945 126 reviews Antony Beevor
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
brutal end to a brutal war
+ A well written history book
This is a story of epic violence, the final act of staggering and extended violence of the Second World War in Europe, the campaign for, envelopment and destruction of Berlin and a good share of its population, by the Red Army. Beevor's book is riveting, well written, engrossing, and emotionally ...
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The Murderers Are Among Us 6 reviews Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer
FIRST RUN FEATURES, 2002
Not To Be Missed
+ A movie that focusses on Germans rebuilding their lives after the War + The Murderers Are Among Us + A moving story of guilt, redemption and hope; German expressionism and documentary realism + Dark future in post-war Germany...
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 244 reviews Antony Beevor
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Great In-depth Analysis
+ Very accessible history + First Rate Analysis + How totalitarian dictatorships mishandle leadership + Historical
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Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army 9 reviews Evgeni Bessonov
Greenhill Books, 2006
Fascinating Account
+ Viewing WWII from the back of a tank + A good story that needed a better editor + grittty, realistic look at Russian tank crews and infantry pushing into Germany in WWII
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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 49 reviews Catherine Merridale
Picador, 2006
Finally a compelling expose on the true nature of the red army
+ Ivan's War + Vivid! + Here they come again
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Ballad of a Soldier - Criterion Collection 28 reviews Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko
Criterion, 2002
Ballad of a good soldier, friend, and son
+ Mother Love + Ballad of a Soldier + Honest and pure + Ballad Of a Soldier
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Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front 27 reviews Gunter K Koschorrek
Greenhill Books, 2006
Blood Red Snow
+ A "Boots on the Ground" View + Good read.
"Blood Red Snow" is another excellent book written about the German version of War in the East, through yet another direct participant in that war (this book is "one more" excellent - German perspective from the many great books on WWII, within the Amazon publishings).
It's important to know one ...
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A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944 29 reviews Willy Peter Reese
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
This book was not written for entertainment
+ Deeply moved + A Stranger to Himself, But a Friend to the Rest of Us + Soulful and poetic
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front (Modern War Studies (Paper)) 55 reviews Gottlob Herbert Bidermann
University Press of Kansas, 2001
Excellent account of hardship, interesting perspective
+ Another clear look into the Geman's soldiers life on the Russian Front + Very realistic, moving and, at times, hard hitting! + Excellent Read - With One Exception
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Stalingrad 187 reviews Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann
Fox Lorber, 1998
stalingrad
+ Good War Movie + The best of the very best + A winner cult movie!
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Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust [All-Region] 2 reviews
why pay more?
+ Outstanding, and the best I've seen in video
I was a bit hesitant to by this particular Korean make. But the risk paid off. The picture is excellent and the subtitles--English, Korean, etc.--are easily removeable and switchable. So don't get ripped off by those who have you over a barrel at $149.00?!
As for the film itself: it is one of ...
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Ballad of a Soldier - Criterion Collection 28 reviews Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko
Criterion, 2002
Ballad of a good soldier, friend, and son
+ Mother Love + Ballad of a Soldier + Honest and pure + Ballad Of a Soldier
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Fateless Nagy, Dora
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 244 reviews Antony Beevor
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Great In-depth Analysis
+ Very accessible history + First Rate Analysis + How totalitarian dictatorships mishandle leadership + Historical
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary 59 reviews Anonymous
Picador, 2006
In Your Face
+ Moving and Raw + Diary that brings you to Berlin + best read + Remarkable, Touching Story by a Woman Who Endured Hell
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A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944 29 reviews Willy Peter Reese
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
This book was not written for entertainment
+ Deeply moved + A Stranger to Himself, But a Friend to the Rest of Us + Soulful and poetic
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The Fall of Berlin 1945 126 reviews Antony Beevor
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
brutal end to a brutal war
+ A well written history book
This is a story of epic violence, the final act of staggering and extended violence of the Second World War in Europe, the campaign for, envelopment and destruction of Berlin and a good share of its population, by the Red Army. Beevor's book is riveting, well written, engrossing, and emotionally ...
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