Forgotten Soldier : The Classic WWII Autobiography (Brassey's Commemorative Series WWII)
by Guy Sajer
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Book Reviews of Forgotten Soldier : The Classic WWII Autobiography (Brassey's Commemorative Series WWII)
Book Review: War Buff
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read hundreds of books about many different wars and can honestly say that this is the most compelling book I have ever read. If you want to read a first hand account of the horror of war, this will be the book you can't put down. It is a story you will never forget. Do yourself a favor, read it.Book Review: Don't read this book ...
Summary: 5 Stars
unless you think you can handle this personal, gut wrenching account of the Eastern Front. It's one soldiers sad, horrifying and lonely story as seen through the eyes of young Guy Sajer. Only 18 years old and French, he is caught in the insanity of WWII and the fall of the Eastern Front. After watching Spielberg's graphic war movie, 'Saving Private Ryan', I found the images and emotions Sajer writes about all that much more troubling. At the end of his story I truly had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. A masterpiece and must read for anyone who dares to see the depths of a man's sole in war.Book Review: Sherman had no idea what hell could be
Summary: 5 Stars
The quote attributed to General Sherman that War is Hell did not anticipate the Eastern Front in WWII. The hell that Guy Sajer went through is nothing like anything I could have imagined. I am a former officer, a US Army Armor Major and I never fought a day. Sometimes I felt somehow cheated.. until I read this book and learned the truth of the matter. There is no glory or honor in modern war, if there ever was, just survival. The other reviewers have is right. If you think you understand war and have not read this man's story, then you are mistaken. Read it.Book Review: An Unvarnished Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
This book will shake you...this is an account of war as it really is. What 'All Quiet on the Western Front' was to WWI, this book is to WWII...absolutely riveting. It brings to mind the famous statement from a Civil War General: "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we would grow too fond of it".Book Review: Change your life, read this book
Summary: 5 Stars
As a keen student of military history, i thought i had a good grasp on the second world war. Then i read this book. Never has the pure inhumanity of actual warfare been brought home to me in such a readable manner. Sajer spends little time or effort trying to explain why so many millions fought and died for ideology, but concerntrates on what the actual experience means to the people at the business end of an artilery barrage or rifle.The horror of winter combat actually made me lose sleep. The violence and casual way in which death became an almost natural thing shook my personal moral structure. The mere fact that he survived a trip to hell says more about the role of fate in war than any passing heroism. He wasn't a hero, he was just a man trapped in hell, clinging to anything that could help him get through to the next day.
In one book, he has managed to shatter any illusions that ever existed about the glamour and glory of armed conflict and place the real value of human life on another plane.
Read it, tell people about it, and then get it made essential reading for every schhol child. Then the next time a politician tries to send them into a fox hole to defend whatever high ideal they want them to die for, they will remember that there must be a better way.