"Guy Sajer was a young Frenchman, born of a German mother, who fought in the Wehrmacht in World War II. At sixteen, he donned a soldier's uniform and was ordered to the Eastern Front. There he began his initiation into the cruelties and waste of war. He saw neither large strategies nor grand designs, but along with his fellow soldiers, he suffered the result of their imperfections"--Jacket.

English translation of : Le Soldat oublié, published : Paris : Robert Laffont, 1968. English translation originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1971. Translation of: Soldat oublié. Reprint of English translation. Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1971. Translation of: Soldat oubliae.

Russia, autumn 1942 -- "The Gross Deutschland," spring 1943 [thru] summer 1943 -- The retreat, autumn 1943 -- To the West, winter 1943 [thru] summer 1944 -- The end, autumn 1944 [thru] spring 1945.