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Loading... Forgotten Soldier : The Classic WWII Autobiography (Brassey's Commemorative Series WWII) (Brassey's Commemorative Series (original 1965; edition 1990)by Guy Sajer
Work InformationThe Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer (1965)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Very good. However not four stars, nearer 3.5. Sajer could have slowed the pace a little bit. He never gets back to Paula at all and he accepts, at face value, some huge German lies. ( ) Áhrifamikil saga af fótgönguliða í þýska hernum seinni hluta síðari heimsstyrjaldarinnar. Öfugt við frægðarlýsingar margra herforingja þá er sagan upplifun óbreytts hermanns af átökum við ofurefli liðs þegar þýski herinn fer hallloka fyrir rússneska hernum á austurvígstöðvunum. Kuldinn og kúlnahríðin ásamt mannfalli vina og félaga er átakanleg og þessi saga hefur verið á leslistum herskóla víða um heim. Hins vegar hefur komið upp gagnrýni á bókina þar sem engar vísbendingar hafa fundist um höfundinn Guy Sajer og því er umdeilt hvort sagan sé skáldverk að hluta eða dulnefni hans hafi verndað hann svo vel sem raun ber vitni. no reviews | add a review
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When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue, and constant deprivation. Posted to the elite Grosse Deutschland division, with its sadistic instructors who shoot down those who fail to make the grade, he enters a violent and remorseless world where all youthful hope is gradually ground down, and all that matters is the brute will to survive. As the biting cold of the Russian winter sets in, and the tide begins to turn against the Germans, life becomes an endless round of pounding artillery attacks and vicious combat against a relentless and merciless Red Army. Sajer's perspective as a German foot soldier 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." A work of stunning force, this is an unforgettable reminder of the horrors of war. No library descriptions found. |
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