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Title: A Big Disappointment
Review: I bought this book hoping to learn a bit more about the operations of a unit partly made famous by Sajer in "The Forgotten Soldier." Instead, the account I received was one which hardly differentiated this Division from any other serving on the Eastern Front. Lucas never brings the description down to the platoon, company, or regimental levels. I never felt like I was taken inside the Grossdeutschland, indeed I don't think the names of the major officers were ever mentioned. The whole book has a strange, detached feeling. It more seems to be a general account of what every fightingman in Russia went through than a history of an individual unit. I guess I was hoping for something more along the lines of Sydor's "Soldiers of Destruction", but that was not what I found.
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