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Title: the true face of war
Review: I read this book almost thirty years ago, and images from it are still seared into my memory: the anguish of the soldiers trapped in the frozen hell of winter, unable to escape as Russian tanks roll up at the same time every day playing cheerful music as they randomly blow up foxholes; the "supply drop" which is not what it at first appears (I won't give away the bitter irony of the scene); the long march back home through the frozen tundra with soldiers literally freezing where they sit; and, of course, the brutal bitter twist at the end. I don't know if this book is based on personal experience or not, but it is certainly the most convincing novel of the horrors of war that I have read. Read this along with Das Boot.
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