This carries forward the story, an earlier 1956 title, The Revolt of Gunner Asch, and takes Troop 3 to the Russian Front. Asch, still skeptical about all forms of heroics (as is his C.O. Luschke (still Lump face to his men)), Lt. Wedelmann, who this time gets involved with a spy (a Russian girl who loves her country as fervently as he loves his), Vierbein, now a corporal, with many tanks to his credit as head of a gun crew

Translation of: Im Krieg, v. 2 of the author's trilogy,