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This is a teenager's vivid account of his experiences as a conscript during the final desperate weeks of the Third Reich, during which he experienced training immediately behind the front line east of Berlin, was caught up in the massive Soviet assault on Berlin from the Oder, retreated successfully and then took part in the fight for the western suburb of Spandau, where he became one of the only two survivors of his company of seventeen year-olds.

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(Location: Paris) whose book was first published in Germany in 1947, finally attained his aim of becoming a journalist after the war, becoming the Paris correspondent for various German newspapers. Tony Le Tissier (Location: Frome, Somerset) who presents and has translated this work, is an expert on the Battle of Berlin and has published many books on the subject.

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