“The Nation that
will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man
and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its
thinking done by cowards”Sir William Francis Butler
Title: The Forgotten Soldier
Author: Guy Sajer
Publisher:
Brassey’s
Pages: 465
Content: This book
is an autobiography of a young Frenchman of mixed nationality (German
father/French mother) from the region of Alsace
who joins the German Army in 1942. It is a rendition of war on the Eastern
Front as seen through the eyes of a junior soldier. Soldat Sajer was engaged in
operations full time from July 1942, when he joined the infantry, to his
ultimate surrender in May 1945. All of his fighting was done on the Eastern
Front. Few memoirs can compare with this work in range of feeling, depths of
self-analysis, or vivid recounting of combat. His work serves as a testament to
the universal motivations of the soldier: comradeship, endurance,
self-sacrifice and fear. Selected by both the Association of the US Army and
the Air Force Association for their distinguished book series, this work
transcends language and nationality to address the human race.
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