BLOOD IN THE FOREST: The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket

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Blood in the Forest tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of WWII. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler's bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of fields and forests in Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Hunt gathered eyewitness accounts, including Vaira Vike-Freiberga (later President of Latvia), to piece together this account. Includes eyewitness accounts, detailed maps and expert contributions alongside rare newspaper archive, photographs from private collections and extracts from diaries.