Title: Servants of Evil
Author: Bob Carruthers
ISBN: 0-7603-2171-X
Publisher: Zenith Press
Stars: 5 (out of 5)
Well, here is a book that I read a few months ago and must of forgot to post my review.....so here it is.
This book has 8 chapters that covers the land combatants in the beginning of the war and the end, the Luftwaffe at the beginning and end and also the U-boats for both the beginning and second half of the war, w/ the last chapter covering the Pow's. This book is all from the German perspective of the war.
It has the general narative of certain battles or certain times of the war but then has actual German Veteran accounts of these battles. All theatres of the war are covered from all elements of the Armed Forces. These veteran accounts are what make the book. They talk about Soviet artillery barages, nerves during a depth charge attack, freezing on the Russian steppes. There are also a few different pictures that I have not seen before from the veterans themselves. The veteran accounts are well laid out and are told in a straight forward way. Nothing is hidden.
Some of the battles are Stalingrad, Dunkirk, Demjansk Pocket. You also get to read on what the Wehrmacht soldiers thought of the Waffen SS, or the Luftwaffe thought of the British or Soviet pilots. The U-Boat sailors talk about the Happy Times off of North America and also about the crippling losses in the latter half of the war.
I could not put the book down and recommend it for sure.
This is just my opinion.