Soldaten

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Translation copyright © 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Originally published in Germany as Soldaten: Protokolle vom Kämpfen, Töten und Sterben by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, in 2011. Copyright © 2011 by Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer, copyright © 2011 S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Neitzel, Sönke.

Soldaten / by Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.

p. cm.

Translation of: Soldaten: Protokolle vom Kämpfen, Töten und Sterben. Frankfurt am Main : Fischer Verlag, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN: 978-0-307-95815-0

1. World War, 1939–1945—Military intelligence—Great Britain. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Prisoners and prisons, British. 3. Prisoners of war—Germany—Attitudes—Sources. 4. Prisoners of war—Great Britain—Attitudes—Sources. 5. World War, 1939–1945—Anecdotes. 6. Eavesdropping—Great Britain. 7. Soldiers—Germany—Attitudes—Sources. 8. Germany—Armed Forces—History—20th century—Sources. I. Welzer, Harald. II. Title.

D810.S7N37313 2012

940.54724108931—dc23

2012005744

Cover design by Peter Mendelsund

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