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When Dude Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German military is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly sees that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue, and frequent deprivation. Posted to the elite Grosse Deutschland department, with its sadistic trainers who shoot down those who fail to make the class, he gets into a violent and remorseless world where all fresh hope is slowly but surely ground down, and everything that matters is the brute will to make it through. As the biting cool of the Russian winter pieces in and the tide starts to turn against the Germans, life becomes an countless round of pounding artillery attacks and vicious combat against a relentless and merciless Red Military. 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 be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited". A work of stunning make, this is an remarkable reminder of the horrors of warfare.
