Screams of the Drowning

From the Eastern Front to the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

Screams of the Drowning
Klaus Willmann
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 224pg
8 Apr 2021 UK
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9781784385989
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This is the true story of how one soldier experienced the horrors and bloodshed of World War II - and lived to tell the tale. Hans Fackler, like many boys his age, was conscripted into the Wehrmacht at the age of seventeen and sent to the Eastern Front. A pioneer in the infantry, he barely survived the carnage of the front lines and lost comrades to the Russian forces. Eventually, Hans suffered a grievous injury from a grenade explosion. No longer able to fight, he found himself drugged on morphine and on board the controversial Wilhelm Gustloff, an armed military transport ship for SS, Gestapo and Wehrmacht personnel, which operated under the guise of transporting civilians. The Gustloff was attacked and sunk by Russian torpedoes, drowning more than 9,000 passengers. Rescued by a German freighter, Hans recuperated in a military hospital near Erfurt in the Harz, which subsequently fell into the Russian zone. He escaped and undertook the arduous task of walking almost 200 miles back home to Bavaria. The extraordinary first-person account of one of the few soldier-survivors of the sinking of the Gustloff, it also includes Hans' experiences of taking part in the Kiev and the Vercors mountains massacres in 1941 and 1944 respectively.
Klaus Willmann is a forester and customs officer by profession. He discovered writing as a new vocation and has since published a number of books, including _The 188 U-Boat_ and _Death March Through Russia_. Willmann lives in Grafing, near Munich. Roger Moorhouse is a historian of the Third Reich. He is the author of the acclaimed _Berlin at War_ and _Hitler' s Third Reich in 100 Objects_ and has been published in more than twenty languages. He has contributed to _He Was My Chief_, _I Was Hitler' s Chauffeur_ and _With Hitler to the End_ (all Frontline Books). He is also a tour guide, a book reviewer and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw. You can follow him on Twitter at @Roger_MoorhouseEva Burke grew up in Vienna and then Zug, Switzerland. She graduated from Brandeis University, Massachusetts with a BA and MA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Studies. She translated and helped research _The True Story of the Christmas Truce _(Greenhill Books) and _I Somehow Survived_ (Greenhill Books). She lives in London with her husband, four children and three grandchildren.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781784385989
Published: 8 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Greenhill Books
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 224

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