
On the Devil's Tail
In Combat with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1945, and with the French in Indochina 1951-54
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James Anderson Foster
This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a 15-year-old German-Italian who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" and later as a soldier with French forces during three years (1951-1954) in the Tonkin area, Vietnam.
Paul recounts his time at the Sennheim military training base, where he was introduced to the rigorous discipline of body and mind. He then goes back to 1940, during the German invasion of France, when he was still a boy in Lorraine, hinting at his motivations for enlisting with the Waffen SS. He reveals his and many young soldiers' exciting and often humorous escapades at Greifenberg, his first love with a German girl helping refugees, and his experiences and feelings during the combats at Körlin, during the strenuous defense of Kolberg, while regrouping at Neustrelitz, and at the German defeat. With a companion, he ends up at a castle delivering a group of women camp prisoners to a Russian officer, living in disguise among enemy soldiers until he escapes and surrender to the Americans.
After his sentence, imprisonment, evasions, and military service in Morocco, Paul is sent to fight in defense of bases north of Hanoi, Vietnam. He survives three years of fierce combats, assaults, ambushes, night patrols, fatal traps, and mortal risks, but, deep down, he compares his service with the Waffen SS during the last year of war with the inefficiency of the French Expeditionary Force in the Far East and comes out deeply frustrated. At almost 26, he has fought and lost in two wars, both against the communists, be they Soviet or Viet-Minh. Unemployed, and with the ideals of a "Nouvelle Europe" in pieces, he briefly joins the French Foreign Legion, his last hope, but in the end chooses another path.
This is a unique memoir, packed with incident and recounting the story of one individual caught up in a series of life-changing events.
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I don't believe it
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One of the BEST memoirs from a German Perspective
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Fascinating Account
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Another reviewed said it all however, they said 'unbelievable'.
Correct, the book is 'unbelievable', as in it's not really all that believable. You have a guy who constantly was threatening his superiors, finds himself in constant trouble yet always escapes by the skin of teeth, is sleeping with hot chicks, yet can pull a gun from his his blanket and randomly kill people sneaking up on him. It's nonsense.
The book comes off as being heavily embellished, maybe by someone who saw one too many action movies, but with a NAZI twist since often the guy comes off as a bad guy. Not a cool bad guy, just a guy who has a rotten core. I don't know, for me, I like my action heroes to help old ladies, not steal from them, but that's just me I guess.
But, with all that said, the book is mostly entertaining -- like a movie. Too much like a movie.
The reader does a good professional job, I listened to it at 1.2x speed and could have gone faster, but thought that sounded best.
If Rambo was a NAZI
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Interesting
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Good read
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Nice
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unbelievable first account
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A point of view that we do not often hear from.
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If only half of it were true...
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