Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945

Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945

John Stieber was twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germany. Caught there by the outbreak of the Second World War, he was unable to return to his parents for …

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