The Forgotten Soldier

Author: Sajer, GuyBrand: Potomac BooksEdition: First EditionFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: HardcoverFormat: Deluxe EditionNumber Of Pages: 508Release Date: 01-11-2000Part Number: 9781574882858Details: Forgotten Soldier recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer’s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov. Sajer's German footsoldier’s perspective makes The Forgotten Soldier a unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitor said "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished containing fifty rare German combat photos of li