Vincent Hunt
Vincent Hunt’s work delves deep into the personal experience of war and its after effects, specialising in gathering eyewitness accounts to create vivid reconstructions of what actually happened. From the scorched earth destruction of northern Norway in late 1944 through the harrowing events of the Eastern Front in Latvia, Pomerania and Berlin, Hunt presents war through the eyes of those who were there. His fifth book for Helion adds extensive testimony from Latvian veterans to classic histories of the Battle for Berlin, lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs of key locations, both then and now. Hunt’s journalistic willingness to revisit history through the eyes of survivors reveals important new details about where and how the Latvians fought in Berlin, and his theoretical model of historical discovery journalism constructed from this method has led to the award of a PhD.
Books
- Sent to Die in Berlin : The Latvian 15th SS Division's Reconnaissance Battalion 22 April-2 May 1945 Author
- Escape from Berlin : The Incredible Journey of the Latvian 15th SS Janums Battle Group April 1945 Author
- The Road of Slaughter : The Latvian 15th SS Division in Pomerania, January-March 1945 Author
- Up Against the Wall : The KGB and Latvia Author
- Blood in the Forest : The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket Author
