by Guy Sajer (Author)
A tremendous best-seller and critical success in France and Germany, the Phoenix Press edition has a new introduction by Doris Lessing. A young man with a French father but a German mother is inducted into the Wermacht in the summer of 1942. He could just as easily have become a French soldier. Following his initial excitement, the book becomes a horrifying chronicle of misery, cold, fear, starvation and disillusionment. The Forgotten Soldier is one of those few classic accounts of an individual's experience of an international anguish. The single most harrowing and incredible account of war that you are ever likely to read.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 07 Dec 2000
ISBN 10: 1842122398
ISBN 13: 9781842122396
Book Overview: New introduction by Doris Lessing Classic rare account of the first hand experience of one of the most bitter and bloody campaigns of the Second World War.