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 Few Returned: Twenty-Eight Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942-1943 $24.95 Corti who was a twenty-one year old artillery officer on the Stalingrad front, was part of the Eighth Italian Army that was cut off when Zhukov sent in the pincers that surrounded the Sixth German Army. His group was in a pocket northeast of Stalingrad that was made up of Italian and German soldiers. Out of the 30 thousand Italians who held the front at the Don north of Stalingrad, less than four thousand made it out of the pocket and up to one thousand of those died from their wounds and exposure. Corti doesn't pull any punches as to what happened in the pocket or who was to blame. Many of the Italians had just come to the front over the last two weeks. They were totally unprepared for what was going to become a retreat over one hundred kilometers while constantly under Russian fire. They had to walk most of the way in inadequate uniforms and boots while the Germans requestioned horse and mules and sleds for their own use. Corti speaks of how the Germans were much better organized and kept their military lines-or-command intact, whereas the Italians in many cases became a mob without any reason or understanding of the situation. At times no one was in charge of taking care of the wounded or giving out provisions. While the German Luftwaffe dropped food and ammunition by parachute, the Italian Air Force was conspicuous by their absence. The story is straight forward and brutal. Corti does not try to make excuses for anyone (including himself) in the treatment of fellow soldiers or of civilians. It was survive at any cost. Zeb Kantrowitz  ASL Action Pack 3 - Few Returned $24.95 Few Returned is the third action pack for Advanced Squad Leader. Designed for the aficionado, few returned is not a complete game and assumes the player owns the core Advanced Squad Leader game system. Few Returned contain three ASL Geomorphic map boards numbers 24, 42 and 43. It features 12 new scenarios. Nine take place on the Eastern front from December 1940 through January 1943. Three are set in September 1943 when the Italians broke from the Axis and depict Italian troops defending Rome from German attempts to seize the city. Note this is a Module Add-on and is not a complete game. Player must own the Advanced Squad Leader Core game system to play. |
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