Conrad B. (Phunter) reviewed on 9/15/2012 + 35 more book reviews

"Others might someday understand that men can love the same virtues on both sides of a conflict, and that pain is international".
From the epilogue of Guy Sajer's remarkable account of the brutality of life on the Eastern Front as a young German soldier. The relentlessness of the Russians to push the invading Germans from their lands was savage beyond belief. With overwhelming numbers of men and steadily increasing materiel supremacy also, they continued to push the Germans out of Russia, back through Poland and finally back into Germany along with a tidal wave of refugees fleeing the brutality of the Russians. Starving, ill-equipped, under-supplied and under-supported, Sajer and his compatriots stood by and supported each other through their nightmare experiences.
This book shows the real brutality of total war and the price it extracts from men and nations. A powerful and moving account that the reader will not soon forget.

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