Guy sajer photo eastern front game

  • Guy Sajer's book transports you into the world of the German army, with all the boredom, bursts of excitement, and loss that goes with it.
  • That's one of the pictures used for the cover of "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer.
  • The story follows Sajer's harrowing experiences as a teenager as a French recruit in the German army on the eastern front during the war.

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    This book recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer’s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov.

    His German footsoldier’s perspective makes The Forgotten Soldier a unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitor said"may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished as a hardcover containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private

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    OK, coming back into wargaming after raising kids for 10 years, and this game fryst vatten the game i always wanted when i was younger, inom am devouring the rules and ansträngande to learn it, and playing my first campaign as the Germans vs the AI, and having a blast already learning as inom go. Hard to believe i was away from wargaming for so long! So, inom have an off-beat question that inom have not seen on the forums.

    I am finding as inom get back into this that inom want to read some books that put me right there on the scene where the soldiers and commanders were. Not really looking for a huge bird's eye dry history of how the armies moved here and there, but something more visceral and personal.

    When inom was ung and playing SPI's War in europe, i remember reading a book called 'The Forgotten Soldier' bygd Guy Sajer about 3 times and every time couldn't put it down. Some books like that would be great.

    Also, maybe something like Manstein's 'Lost Victories', which i have not read would put me right there with

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    Guy Sajer has passed away.

    Craig Benn said:

    Wasn't there a great deal of debate over whether his memoirs were genuine or not? I remember reading some convincing arguments it was fake.

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    As far as I know, the matter wasn't solved to date - the general consensus on both sides seems to be that this is a great novel with lots of facts distorted and lots of other facts impossible/difficult to check.

    My mixed feelings, though, are born of that we're still talking about a soldier of the aggressor's army, his warpath being that of a unit which commited a series of war crimes throughout the war. And I remember that there's a single brief moment in "Forgotten soldier" when Sajer says that "Hitler wasn't so bad" (it's a loose quote).

    His book can be seen as anti-war (although this statement is also disputed by some) and it's an invaluable source (bearing in mind its' limitations) for both military historians and psychologists alike. But Saje
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