Enemy in the East

Reviews / Votes

The Unknown Eastern Front demonstrates that history - especially of a highly sensitive issue like this one - is rarely about neat binary categories of black and white, good and evil.' Roger Moorhouse, TLS 'In lifting the veil with which history has shrouded these men, Muller - has opened up a new vista on a largely forgotten, and sometimes deliberately neglected, but crucial aspect of recent history.' Nigel Jones, Spectator 'The Unknown Eastern Front demonstrates that history - especially of a highly sensitive issue like this one - is rarely about neat binary categories of black and white, good and evil.'Roger Moorhouse, TLS 'In lifting the veil with which history has shrouded these men, Muller - has opened up a new vista on a largely forgotten, and sometimes deliberately neglected, but crucial aspect of recent history.'Nigel Jones, Spectator ' - this is an important subject - [Muller] supplies full and useful detail on the contribution of all the different peoples who participated, with information on the numbers of soldiers and the tasks they were expected to fulfill.' Richard Overy, History Today 'A definitive work.' Die Welt; 'Mr. Muller's achievement is not only to explain Hitler's strategic thinking but also to debunk the myth of him as a master of Machiavellian deception' - Brendan Simms, The Wall Street Journal