Carell, Paul
Hitler Moves East, 1941-1943
New York: Little, Brown, 1964
Binding: Hardcover
See also other edition(s):
Bantam, 1965 - Paperback
Aberdeen Books, 2009 - Hardcover
See also more books from:
Paul Carell
See also more books on the same topic(s):
Arctic Front, June 1941 - May 1945
Battle for Moscow, October - December 1941
Battle of Stalingrad, August 1942 - February 1943
Crimea campaigns, 1941-1942
German summer offensive in Russia, May - November 1942
Operation Barbarossa, June - December 1941
Operation Barbarossa: Army Group Center, June - October 1941
Operation Barbarossa: Army Group North, June - December 1941
Operation Barbarossa: Army Group South, June - December 1941
Operations in the Caucasus, 1942-1943
Russo-German War, 1941-1945
Soviet winter offensive, November 1941 - May 1942
Soviet winter offensive, November 1942- March 1943
See also references to this book:
Reference in book review/survey July 2009
Reference in news archive November 2009
Reference in news archive December 2009
Reference in book review/survey April 2011
Feedback from visitors
Feedback from Bob Carpenter on Monday, 10 May 2004
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This is one of the best books on the Eastern Front war that I have read. The author makes you feel that you are there fighting with them. I found it hard to put it down.
Feedback from Charles Lee on Friday, 19 November 2004
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This book and its companion are the best books on the Eastern Front I have ever read. It is well written and easy to read. I have enjoyed anything I have ever read by this author.
Feedback from Trevor Sorensen on Friday, 14 October 2005
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My sister gave me this book on my 16th birthday and I could hardly put it down. I read it twice. Definitely the best history book I've read. Paul Carell brought it to life, from Hitler and the High Command down to the common soldier fighting for his life in the vastness that is Mother Russia. Can't recommend highly enough.
Feedback from Mike Purcell on Wednesday, 14 December 2005
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Carell's writing on the east front from the first chapter to the last holds your attention; the detailed accounts of small unit actions put you right there, you may have to pinch yourself,anyone reading this will be looking for his second volume Scorched Earth.
Feedback from Ben Lamm on Thursday, 29 March 2007
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Paul Carell was able to move from grand strategy to small unit action with an ease that makes this one of the best history books I have ever read. As one of the previous comments states, when I finished this book, I immediately wanted to read his others. I first read this book 40 years ago and keep going back to it for sheer pleasure.
Feedback from Evert Stieber on Tuesday, 4 September 2007
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The book feedback given on Paul Carell's "Hitler Moves East" almost compels to correct the image.
His real name was Paul Karl Schmidt and he was born on Nov. 2nd, 1911. He died in Germany in June 1997.
He became a member of the NSDAP in 1931, so even BEFORE Hitler came to power! In 1938 he became a member of the SS, and from 1940 held the rank of Obersturmbannführer (LCol). Under the protection of Joachim von Ribbentrop Schmidt became chief of the Public Relations Office of the Ministry ofForeign Affairs. He advanced to the third main public press official,after Otto Dietrich (subordinated directly to Hitler) and Hans Fritzsche, the chief of "German Press" in Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda.
Schmidt is disqualified to write anythingabout the Nazi-German invasion of the Soviet Union. He was political active (NSDAP member), but also one of Hitler's "political soldiers" (member of the SS).
It's strange that even after 66 years many people are willing to take Schmidt's image of the Nazi-German invasion and occupation of the Soviet Union for granted. For more information see:
http://www.shoa.de/content/view/100/85/
The text of this site in German.
Feedback from JIm Jones on Wednesday, 28 July 2010
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The pro German Bias is strongly presented by the author, that Glosses over the true barbarity and atrocities that the German Army immediately
began practicing on the Russian Soldiers and Civilians.
At Brest Litovsk, women and children hiding in shelters were mercilessly
incinerated with flamethrowers, described as an unfortunate incident of war. It can now be determined that the German invasion was not military at all, but a war against helpless civilians.
The author attempts very well to related the War as a sporting game.
Feedback from Kurt on Friday, 30 July 2010
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While well written and informative, the author criticizes Stalins
Military Buildup, as justification for Hitler to attack, the author
fails to mention Hitlers own massive Military Buildup, that was used for
Military aggression and conquest, that reflected the sore loser mentality of Hitler and the German Generals after World War I.
Feedback from Paul on Sunday, 21 October 2012
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Despite the fact that the author was a Nazi, the story is a popular history of the war in the East from the German point of view. In short, when reading it, it is as though you are listening to a bunch of German WWII combat veterans telling their memories of the fighting. It is exciting and dramatic and pathetic all at once. It also points out just how brave and tough were the Soviet troops. Yes it does omit the atrocities. That is not the point of the book. But, what is fascinating is the guts and toughness of the German soldier in combat. It does not try and pretend the German side was right only that they had a story to tell just as did the victors.
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