The Forgotten Soldier [antikvár]

AUTHOR'S PREFACE Guy Sajcr who are you? My parents were country people, bom some hundreds of miles apart - a distance filled with difficulties, strange complexities, jumbled frontiers, and sentiments which were equivalent but untranslatable. I was produced by this alliance, straddling this delicate combination, with only one life to deal with its manifold problems. I was a child, but that is without significance. The problems had existed before I did, and I discovered tibem. Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reach^ the age of falling in love. I had to shoulder a brutally heavy burden. Suddenly there were two flags for me to honour, and two lines of defence ~ the Siegfried and the Maginot - and powerful external enemies. I entered the service, dreamed, and hoped. I also knew cold and fear in places never seen by Lilli Marlene. A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition^