While the world waited for Hitler's downfall, more than half a million men fought the six battles of the Courland Pocket in western Latvia. Blood in the forest builds a vivid picture of a savage episode at the end of WWII through eyewitness accounts aned stories told here for the first time...--Publisher description.
A hundred years of oppression, seen through the eyes of Latvians - first as the oppressors, then as the oppressed. After WWII and the Cold War, Latvia experienced fifty years of Soviet domination. The KGB's methods are laid bare in true stories of interrogation, torture, execution and deportation to Siberia: this is not for the squeamish.
The first assessment of the human consequences of the scorched earth devastation in Norway, including mass displacement, murder, survival, miracle rescues, forced labour, cruelty and evidence of cannibalism among Russian POWs