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This book will stay in my mind forever | The Forgotten Soldier: The Classic WWII Autobiography (Brassey's Commemorative Series WWII) | Guy Sajer

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	• The Forgotten Soldier: The Classic WWII Autobiography (Brassey's Commemorative Series WWII) Guy Sajer Brassey's, 1990 - 472 pages average customer review:based on 164 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Sobbering and Balanced

Echos of Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" - this book's actual accounts will leave the reader mentally drained. The graphic reality of combat on the Eastern front are jaw dropping. Combat experiences are conveyed expertly without self-praise nor self-loathing - just the facts and the struggle. Politics are abscent. The story shows a man's journey and his witness to the horrors of war in depths that could never be duplicated in other forms of media. If done in film it would be "Saving Private Ryan" to the factor of ten.

A prize book in my personal collection.

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Best War Book

Best War Book
This is not an anti-war book.
It is an eye witness account of war.
Read this book whether you hate or love war.

This book will stay in my mind forever

I finally read the last pages of Forgotten Soldier (July 10, 2009).. This book is on my mind for weeks and then months now. I keep going over, and over in my head the pages, the struggle, the destruction, and the ending. Here are some of my thoughts on it.

I have taken a year to read Forgotten Soldier ( by Guy Sajer). Simply because It has been so painful for me to read. I love the book, yet get physically ill and hurt at times as I read the pages. This book is an epic of heroism and tragedy for good people.

It is the story of a 17 year old boy who spent over two years on the Eastern Front fighting the Bolsheviks. His name: Guy Sajer, the son of a Frenchman and a German mother. This book should be read for several reasons. It tells a story of terror most people can not even begin to imagine in their so protected minds of today with lessons from history so recent yet so unknown to most people. In the utter destruction of Germany 1945--- it provides hope for the future. For Germany fifty years later, no matter how corrupt it's illegal imposed government is, thanks to the German people, the powerhouse of Europe today even though almost a third smaller than it was in 1945.

It hurts to turn almost every page in the book after the first chapter (so much so, that I had to quit reading for a month or so at a time). Nonetheless, it irresistibly draws one back to see what will happen to Guy as a person, to his beloved friends in the trenches with him, and to the Germans as a whole who were fighting the communists as a nation totally mobilized for victory and completely unprepared for defeat. We do not know this story for it is forbidden in today's world to tell the truth of that period. The victor always writes the history of the defeated. This book is the testimony of a single young man of simple background, who as a private fought the war and who gives us the truth of the defeated.

Forgotten Soldier, is also in it's tragedy, an anti-war book of the first order. It should be read by all those young people thinking of enlisting in the military of the United States. By reading this book it becomes entirely clear that war is so terrible that one should only fight when it is the very last resort to save one's existence from an implacable enemy.

LRB

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a most read book

this book will take you in depth of the harsh reality of ww2 combat, seeing trough the eyes of a young enlisted infantryman ,a most read for those who want to taste ,smell,and get up close an personal ,with an account that in battle sees no age ,or bounderies every man suffers equal,

War on the Eastern Front, seen through the eyes of a young German soldier.