Review: Moskou

Moskou by Theodor. Plievier
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This war novel is an impressive account of the Eastern Front. Plievier describes the Barbarossa campaign till the defeat for the gates of Moskow. He uses the perspective of the German army via various persons, e.g. Bomelbürg, the commander of a tank regiment, but also Gotke, a leutenant in the same regiment. And he describes the Russian perspective as well, again by describing the lives of certain Russion military men or their family.

This war novel is part of a trilogy that made Plievier famous in the years after the war. Being a German in exile in Moskow, Plievier got to interview many German prisoners of war, and access to Red Army sources. This novel, as well as the other two "Stalingrad" and "Berlin" are graphic accounts of this very gruesome episode in our history.


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