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Translator’s note
PART 1 The Gathering Storm
1 Back Home to the Reich?
2 Nasty Weather on the Don
3 In Retreat – to the East!
4 Caught in a Trap
PART 2 Between Night and Morning
1 Manstein’s Coming!
2 Hunger and Morale
3 Black Christmas
4 Faint Outlines in the Fog
5 The Bone Road
6 Is There Really No Way Out?
PART 3 The Moment of Truth
1 The Die is Cast
2 Look What They’ve Done to Us!
3 Guilty in the Eyes of His People
4 Horror at Gumrak
5 No Way Back
6 Die – And Rise Again!
7 Twilight of the Gods
The Final Reckoning
Endpapers
Afterword
APPENDIX by Carsten Gansel
I. Seventy years in captivity – The remarkable story of Heinrich Gerlach’s novel Breakout at Stalingrad
II. ‘It’s all come back to me…’ – Using hypnosis to release locked-away memories
III. The Forsaken Army – A surprise bestseller
IV. A novel on trial – A first in legal and medical history
V. A spectacular discovery – Breakout at Stalingrad
VI. All in the Past – Memoirs of a Königsberg man
VII. Heinrich Gerlach in Lunyovo special camp – The founding of the BDO – Lost documentary footage
VIII. Heinrich Gerlach in Lunyovo special camp and the German communist exiles – A ‘Who’s Who’ of the future GDR
IX. ‘They’d stared into the abyss of hell’ – Writing as an act of liberation
X. ‘He’s trying to cover up his past’ – Heinrich Gerlach’s odyssey through POW camps
XI. ‘Unsuitable for repatriation’ – Heinrich Gerlach in the clutches of the NKVD secret service
XII. New-found freedom and fear of abduction – Heinrich Gerlach in the sights of the Soviet secret service
XIII. Heinrich Gerlach’s Breakout at Stalingrad under scrutiny by the Soviet leadership – Malenkov, Beria, Suslov, Kruglov, Grigorian, Serov and Kobulov
XIV. The original manuscript
About Heinrich Gerlach
About Carsten Gansel
About Peter Lewis
An Invitation from the Publisher
Copyright
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