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On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Neitzel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general--almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war. Collaborating with renowned social psychologist Harald Welzer, Neitzel examines these conversations--and the casual, pitiless brutality omnipresent in them--from a historical and psychological perspective, and in reconstructing the frameworks and situations behind these conversations, they have created a powerful narrative of wartime experience.

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Celebrated narrator Simon Prebble does a masterly job solemnly conveying this powerful, dramatic material. . . . Essential for university history and military/World War II research collections. -- Library Journal

Celebrated narrator Simon Prebble does a masterly job solemnly conveying this powerful, dramatic material. . . . Essential for university history and military/World War II research collections. Library Journal Uniqueand essential to any understanding of German mentalites in the Hitler era. Kirkus Unique--and essential to any understanding of German mentalitEs in the Hitler era. -- Kirkus Celebrated narrator Simon Prebble does a masterly job solemnly conveying this powerful, dramatic material. . . . Essential for university history and military/World War II research collections. -- Library Journal

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Coming soon... Coming soon... One of AudioFile magazine's Golden Voices, Simon Prebble has received over twenty Earphones Awards and five Listen-Up Awards, and he has been a finalist fourteen times for an Audie Award. In 2006, Publishers Weekly named him Narrator of the Year, and he was named Booklist's 2010 Voice of Choice.

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