This incredible visual record of life and death along the Eastern Front
features more than 250 images from the the PIXPAST Archive, a collection
of more than 32,000 original color photographs taken between 1936 and
1946.
Collated into three parts and organized thematically, the book begins
with images of the ground war, including Hitler's invasion of the Soviet
Union and the tanks, vehicles, weaponry and infantry on both sides.
Moving into the war in the skies, the images depict aircraft in flight
and on the ground, the bombers, fighters, Luftwaffe personnel and the
destruction wrought from battle. And finally, the images take us behind
the lines, to the prisoners of war, partisans, medics, the daily lives
and leisure activities of soldiers and civilians along the front and the
impact of the harsh Russian winter.
Accompanied by text by renowned author and commentator Anthony
Tucker-Jones, these images offer a rare, often surprising insight into
the realities of the Second World War and people caught up in it, in
vivid color detail.