War Diaries (March 14) (nonfiction)
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George Beck: March 14, 1944
Tuesday Russians doing great. Heavy fighting around Kherson. Advanced as far as Tarnapol and well into Poland. They are nearing the boarders of Hungary, Rumania, Slovakia so giving the Germans a bigger front still. No parcels. Typhus in Lamsdorf, Russians are dying as many as sixty a day and our lads are now suspected. The new guard we have here was wounded three times in Russia; he also stepped on a mine and was blown 15 metres. His face is blue and he wakes up in the night screaming, his nerves are gone. Cannot help but feel sorry for him.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)