The Forgotten Soldier

The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co. of America, 5th printing 1990, Great War Stories series. Red cloth in tidy condition. Minor creasing to corners. Black titles to spine. Contents tight and clean with no inscriptions. Spine and edge of dustwrapper faded. Titles not visible on faded spine. Dustwrapper has had chips repaired. This is a heavy book so please check postage with bookseller.

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...