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Eastern Front Eyewitness

Life and death on WWII's brutal battlefields in the words of people who were there

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Return to the Road of Slaughter

_{I've been back to the road where thousands of Latvian soldiers died in a Soviet encirclement in early February 1945. Read my piece about the visit here.}

German helmet with a bullet hole

To the lower left of the vent hole in this helmet is an entry hole made by a bullet. It's a sobering reminder of the fate of many thousands of men on the Eastern Front.

Journeys in the snow

I’ve been lucky enough to have the help of a network of Polish historians who know what really happened in the villages of Kashubia in 1944–45.

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