The Forgotten Soldier: The True Story of a Young German Soldier on the Russian Front
by:
Doris Lessing (author)
Guy Sajer (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781842127346 (1842127349)
Publish date: October 2nd 2003
Publisher: Phoenix Books/Orion Publishing Group Ltd.
Pages no: 481
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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