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File Size: 4275 KB
Print Length: 288 pages
Publisher: Casemate; Reprint edition (November 30, 2006)
Publication Date: November 30, 2006
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B002FQJP76
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Memoirs are difficult to rate because they are so personal. As is this one. By the time you finish the book, you've marched through Lubbeck's entire life, not just his service on the Eastern front. This is the central worth of this book. He fights across Europe and Russia. He witnesses Germany's defeat. Then, like all the surviving German peoples, he struggles to save his family. He moves to Canada and proves his worth as a new immigrant. He moves again and again, switching jobs, building his skill and resume. He moves to the United States and finds the new life he had been searching for. This is a story quite relevant even to this day.
This is a very readable book about the military service in WWII of a German enlisted man, later promoted to a company-grade officer, and, briefly, about his post-war life. Although much of the book is about the author's service with Army Group North, there are also chapters about his recruit training, and subsequent service in France from May 1940 onwards, as well as officer training in the midst of the war. Readers interested in the German Army should find this very useful. I found this a better book than several other memoirs of "common" soldiers, and hence the five stars.
When I was in school, I learned that the difference between an autobiography and a memior was principally one of focus. An autobiography is the story of your life, and a memior is the story of one particular aspect of your life. Although the line is not always clear, it remains an important distinction, because most people's working life is far more interesting than their daily one. The biography of a test-pilot whose hobby is planting geraniums would probably be less interesting than his memior. I've found this true of German WW2 writings as well. With some exceptions, guys like Hans Rudel, Günther Koschorrek, and F.W. von Mellenthin, who stick largely to their combat experiences, tend to be somewhat more interesting than guys like Klaus Häberlin, Philip Freiherr von Boeselager, or Georg Grossjohan, who paint with a much broader brush.AT LENINGRAD'S GATES is a biography, or at least more of a biography than it is a memior, and because of this, I found it less interesting, taken as a whole, than some of the other books I just mentioned. While no means without merit, and in many instances quite gripping and even horrifying, it is important for the reader to know going in that in this book, he is dealing with the sum of a man's life and not just the "hot lead and cold steel" part of it.Wilhelm Lübbecke was born in Püggen, a farming town in north-central Germany, just two years after the end of the Great War. His parents were hard-working, religious, conservative-minded folk who instilled the same sort of values in their son, values which stood him in good stead during the Great Depression. Because of these values, he never warmed to the Nazis, but like most Germans was more than willing to fight for his country's interests when the war broke out in 1939. Seeing his first action in France as a private soldier, Lübbecke was sent east in 1941 to participate in the invasion of Russia, and somehow survived the entire campaign, including the calamitous last days of April and May, 1945, rising to the rank of captain in the process. After the war he consummated his years-long romance with sweetheart Annalise, and then engaged in the bitter postwar struggle against starvation, finally electing to emigrate to Canada in 1951 to find work. At last achieving success as an engineer, he eventually moved to America, bcame a citizen, raised a family, and retired in good health - a rather remarkable example of the American dream in action.Lübbecke's war service was entirely with the 58th Division, which belonged to Army Group North, the group of German forces which besieged Leningrad from 1941 until 1944 (hence the title of the book). A veteran of such horrible battles as Demyansk and Wolchow, he has many great anecdotes to relate - calling down artillery fire on Soviet tanks, listening as Red Army soldiers shouted over No Man's Land that they were going to mutilate his corpse, fleeing enemy capture on the deck of a Navy destroyer -- but his tendency to speak in generalities sometimes gives the book a disconnected feeling, almost as if he is using conventional history texts to fill the gaps in his memory. What's more, while almost every chapter is seemingly devoted to his military service, and while Lübbecke himself was obviously a superb soldier, he was by temperament a romantic whose heart was not in the war, but rather back home with his beloved Annalise. As a result, his war experiences often come off rather flat, while the passages about home and family tend to have more passion. This creates the false, but strong, impression, that one is reading much more about his family life and much less about his military one. What's more, Lübbecke spends quite a bit of time insisting that he was not a Nazi, that no German soldiers he knew were Nazis, that nobody was fighting for Nazism but only for Germany, etc., etc. This may in fact be his experience, but he resorts to the mantra so frequently it becomes a bit tedious.I don't want to discourage anyone from reading this book. Quite the contrary. If you want to read the saga (and it really is a saga) of Wilhelm Lübbecke, who began his life as a Prussian farm-boy in the 1920s, and finally ended up as the patriotic American citizen "William Lubbeck" in the 1960s, while earning himself an Iron Cross in between, then this is for you. If you want nonstop action, or a book that simply immerses you in German military life without "emotional distraction", I'd suggest Kurt Meyer or Gottlob Bidermann.
The author was a German farm boy with an eye for engineering and leadership so joining the army and then getting sent off to fight the Russians offered an exciting, if dangerous life. As he tells his personal story, we learn about life in a rural German town and on the farm, the conservative social constructs of relationships, and rather traditional but honest parents with no time for the Nazis and, later, Soviet occupiers. And there is nice love story and success in the new world. The shock that the love of his life kept a picture of Hitler on her wall. Probably a pretty ordinary story told in a straightforward and simple way.We so often get clobbered with war stories told by historians looking at the big picture who regale us with monumental facts, battles, generals, outcomes, footnotes.....this story takes us down in the direction of the trenches, on-the-ground decision making and logistics, the comparative freedom German officers had to make decisions, and quite believable observations on the aspirations and attitudes of the guys in the German, and I suspect most militaries, at that time. And in our time when I suspect that our troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan care less about background politics than meeting personal goals and staying alive. Perhaps so hardened to day to day survival they don't see the atrocities perpetrated in the name of their cause; a cause they may not see beyond inherent patriotism, a need for a job, or just being macho.OK. So far so good. I like it when engineers and military people put on a very human face, which is what we have here. I like it when the writer takes the time to explain the structure of the German army, and discusses its weapons, front line strategies and even the reliance on horses in modern warfare.But then....having been deep in some of the literature of the Leningrad siege and the march of the Red Army to Germany, and having been to St. Petersburg recently, I would have liked a little more of that old saw CONTEXT, a context which was complex and, in terms of German atrocities, horrific. A chapter on the overall siege with some numbers (something like 600,000 resident deaths the first year), the massacres of Jews and common citizens in Leningrad suburbs, and the destruction and looting of magnificent palaces would be very helpful. A good map on where, exactly, the author was stationed. A few more words about the overall logistical system, railroads, etc. Without some of this the narrative feels at times to be a bit too benign. This is not to suggest that the overall perspective here is inaccurate. But I find it hard to believe some of the horrors were not seen first hand, and discussed. Or that none of the officers here were Nazis. Or that the Nazis refused to have East Prussia evacuated until the very tragic end was simply left unsaid. We get temptingly close here in some of the narrative: sympathy to the guys on the Russian side, commentary on why Germans fell for the Nazis (mainly Western betrayals...), on how the average German really didn't know about concentration camps and genocide, and so on. His slave laborers were the captured who worked on his dad's farm, not the hundreds of thousands who labored in factories, and died in them.I'm sure there are more complicated and complete soldier biographies from World War II, and I'm sure we'll be getting a slew from our troops in recent wars. Were I advising them I would suggest they read this book to be sure the human side comes through, and it is a human side that makes this a very good read. But not quite an excellent one.
11/20/2017: The book is well-written in excellent English grammar. Non of the typical poor grammar such as "I've got to do this" instead of "I have to do this." Also no singular to plural bad grammar such as "If you see a person driving badly, tell them not to" instead of writing "tell him/her" or "tell the person." The chronology is well-developed. Finally, the story is captivating from beginning to end. Good job Herr Lubbeck.
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