ZIESER, Benno. In Their Shallow Graves. Trans. from the German by Alec Brown. London: Elek. 1956. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by initials ‘LNB’. With eight photographic plates. A very good or better copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean, with some mild offsetting to endpapers, and small ink gift inscription to front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net), gently bumped and rubbed to the corners and spine head and tail.
The personal experiences of a young German soldier who set out towards Moscow in June 1941 as part of the German offensive, Operation Barbarossa. Two harsh winters later, the offensive had failed and Zieser was evacuated from Stalingrad on the cusp of German collapse. With remarkable photographic evidence, it tells not only of the extreme physical endurance required to survive the winters, the weather, the hunger, war, but also of the corrosion of the spirit by the sufferings of such multitudes of victims and the loss, one by one, of so many comrades.
ZIESER, Benno. In Their Shallow Graves. Trans. from the German by Alec Brown. London: Elek. 1956. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by initials ‘LNB’. With eight photographic plates. A very good or better copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean, with some mild offsetting to endpapers, and small ink gift inscription to front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net), gently bumped and rubbed to the corners and spine head and tail.
The personal experiences of a young German soldier who set out towards Moscow in June 1941 as part of the German offensive, Operation Barbarossa. Two harsh winters later, the offensive had failed and Zieser was evacuated from Stalingrad on the cusp of German collapse. With remarkable photographic evidence, it tells not only of the extreme physical endurance required to survive the winters, the weather, the hunger, war, but also of the corrosion of the spirit by the sufferings of such multitudes of victims and the loss, one by one, of so many comrades.
