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Title: Woeful!
Review: Appallingly amateurish effort that looks like it was assembled by a comittee of pre-schoolers. Atrocious spelling and grammar (whatever happened to proofreading?), text that rambles and, towards the end becomes more or less incoherent, text and photographs repeated - sometimes laughably so - one photo is provided with a caption indicating the subjects are vanquished Germans, then a few pages later, the same photo is described as depicting victorious Russians. The text waffles on interminably about "the horror" and "the inhumanity" etc etc, and detail is sacrificed for hyperbole. Few if any good points - some of the photos at least are new and worth seeing - but on the whole, this theatre of the war has been well-described in many other, much more worthy books, Alan Clark's "Barbarossa", for one. My advice is to try one of those and don't waste your precious time on this shabby effort.
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