"The Last Battle" Topic
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Tango01 | 15 Sep 2016 10:18 p.m. PST |
"The Last Battle" is a book by Stephen Harding which tells a battle which took place in Austria on the 5th May 1945 between an SS division and US troops, French prisoners of war like Weygand or Reynaut and anti-Nazi Germans soldiers .
Main page link Have anyone read this book yet?. If the asnwer is yes… comments please? Thanks in advance for your guidance. Amicalement Armand |
Porthos | 16 Sep 2016 7:34 a.m. PST |
Yes. Absolutely marvellous. The prisoners were former French Government (at least one accompanied by his mistress and perhaps (IIRC) also his wife – how French ! ;-)) and kept alive because of their possible use as hostages. Guardians were SSTK (SS Todes Kommando – the worst of the worst – those criminals for instance had the job of killing Russian Jews and Russian Kommissars). An American unit in the neighbourhood tried to liberate the prisoners and fought the SS while supported by a unit of the Wehrmacht. It is at least once played out and a very interesting scenario. Quite a bit of information was written down by a Czech electrician (who was working in 1945 to make this castle into a prison for those French) who wrote his comments on thin paper and hid it in the castle. After the war he made these notes public. |
Tango01 | 16 Sep 2016 10:49 a.m. PST |
Thanks my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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