Forgotten Soldier
The Forgotten Soldier A German soldier's first-hand account of life on the Russian front during the second half of World War II. Posted to the crack "Grosse Deutshland" division, Guy Sajer entered a violent and remorseless world where all youthful hope was gradually ground down. Full description
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The Forgotten Soldier A German soldier's first-hand account of life on the Russian front during the second half of World War II. Posted to the crack "Grosse Deutshland" division, Guy Sajer entered a violent and remorseless world where all youthful hope was gradually ground down. Full description
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781574882858 (1574882856)
Publish date: November 1st 2000
Publisher: Potomac Books
Pages no: 465
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
War,
Military,
World War II,
Military History,
Germany
deserves its reputation as "war memoir classic;" Sajer's Eastern Front gallery of horrors vividly describes Barbarossa from the perspective of a GrossDeutschland Landser.
One of the most powerful books I have ever read.It brings home the horror and chaos of war like no other book I've come across.It's a book that alters with the reader age and experiences - I first read it at 16 and loved the descriptions of war and the 'action', whilst still feeling shocked.I read i...
I read Sajer's story 20 years ago and I was deeply impressed by it. He was among those Alsatians who joined the Wehrmacht following the incorporation of Alsace (one of France's eastern regions) into the Third Reich following France's defeat in June 1940. Sajer himself is of French and German pare...
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