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...Jerry Paulus strokes the third crew, with Charlie Robinson the seven-man, Bob Green at six, Al Rieselbach at five, Harry Gibson at four, Bruce Morgan at three, Steve Heartt at two, and Rod Park...
...following are the men from which the three boats will be chosen: Adams, Atherton, Boyden, Brown, Dickinson, DuBois, Fenton, Gibson, Green, Heartt, Henderson, Huntington, Jeffries, Kennedy, Morgan, Park, Paulus, Reinhardt, Reiselbach, Robinson, Rouner, Seymour, Simonds, Straus, Wendell, Whiting, and Wyman...
Died. Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin, 55, marshal of the Soviet Union, one of the defenders of Stalingrad; after long illness; in Moscow. Tolbukhin's army broke through the German lines in November 1942, completed encirclement of Paulus' German Sixth Army, later helped drive the enemy out of the southern Ukraine and the Balkans...
This story doesn't end on the last page of the novel. Field Marshal Von Paulus, the commander of the Sixth Army, joined the so-called Free Germany Committee shortly after his capture. This group was made up of German ex-officers in Russian captivity, who became opposed to Nazism and were carefully trained to form a pro-Russian puppet administration in Germany. Today Von Paulus is said to be commanding an army of pro-Communist German veterans--a ghost army somewhere in eastern Europe, ready to pounce when the time comes. Theodor Plievier himself came to Germany...
Plievier's setting is the area around Stalingrad, where Field Marshal von Paulus and his 330,000 men of the German Sixth Army were ordered to fight to the bitter end-and nearly half were obliterated in the space of seven weeks. Plievier describes, with ruthless exactness, just how they were obliterated-how snow and ice shattered their limbs like dry wood, how they starved on dried peas and hot water while suffering horribly from dysentery and typhus, how they committed suicide and fell under fire, until after ten weeks only some 50,000 human wrecks remained able...