Soldat; Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949

    Siegfried Knappe fought, was wounded, and survived battles in nearly every major Wehrmacht campaign. His astonishing career begins with Hitler's rise to power, and for the author, as a teenager in the National Labor Service - and ending as a combat veteran with a five year term in a Russian prison camp, after the Allies rolled victoriously into the smoking rubble of Berlin with Hitler dead.

   The enormous range of Knappe's fighting experiences provides an unrivaled combat history of Germany and World War II.

   Soldat is based on Knappe's wartime diaries and filled with 16 pages of photographs he smuggled to the West at the War's end. The book delivers a rare opportunity for the reader to understand how a ruthless psychopath motivated an entire generation of ordinary Germans to carry out his monstrous schemes.....and offers a stunning insight into the life of a soldier in Hitler's Army...(from the inside cover)