About the book: 2017 / During the Second World War, Kurt Hohof, serving in the German armed forces, went from an ordinary soldier to an officer. He took part in the actions of Hitler's army in the territories of Poland, France and the Soviet Union. The duties of liaison Kurt Hohof included keeping a log of his regiment's combat operations, which helped him reconstruct the events in which he was a participant and witness. Possessing undoubted literary talent, the well-educated German describes in detail the brutal battles on the Dnieper, on the approaches to the Don and near Stalingrad, and the stubborn resistance of the Red Army. And about how he thought about the future of Germany, how he became sober and understood the impending catastrophe