{"product_id":"soldaten-on-fighting-killing-and-dying-the-secret-second-world-war-tapes-of-german-pows","title":"Soldaten by Sönke Neitzel \u0026 Harald Welzer Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.65; color: #1b1b1b;\"\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- TITLE + HOOK --\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.35;\"\u003eSoldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0 0 12px 0;\"\u003eA powerful and unsettling WWII history book built from real recorded voices. Honest, disturbing, and impossible to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- STORY \/ WHY IT MATTERS --\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0 0 14px 0;\"\u003e\nSome items on \u003cstrong\u003eKate's Treasures15\u003c\/strong\u003e are chosen because they're beautiful or useful. Others are here because they meant something to my dad. He was an \u003cstrong\u003eactor\u003c\/strong\u003e, a \u003cstrong\u003escriptwriter\u003c\/strong\u003e, and a serious collector of films and books that had something to say. This is one of those books.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0 0 14px 0;\"\u003e\nWritten by \u003cstrong\u003eSönke Neitzel\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHarald Welzer\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSoldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable work of historical non-fiction based on secretly recorded conversations between German prisoners of war during the Second World War. 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