This is a short English language volume intended to give Western wartime readers a feel for what was going on in the Eastern Front, through Soviet eyes. The Soviet correspondents lay it on with steam shovels, since they weren't doing very well at this point in the war. There is about 1% truth in these accounts.I purchased this volume for research purposes but found it virtually useless, since wartime censorship minimizes the amount of names and dates in here. Most accounts are about low-level figures who are being lionized as heroes in some action or other (which is rarely described in detail). All defeats and setbacks are glossed over or ignored. German losses are multiplied times five. This gives a feel for Soviet communist thinking at this point, but is not intended as real history.