A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War - Russia, 1941-1944

Edited by Stefan Schmitz, with a foreword by Max Hastings, and translated by Michael Hofmann. A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an intelligent, touching, and illuminating perspective on life on the eastern front.