by Willi Heinrich · Cassell Military · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780304352418
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«Cross of Iron» is the war novel by Willi Heinrich, published by Cassell Military in paperback (480 pages, in English).
On the Eastern Front of World War II, a German platoon is cut off behind Soviet lines. Its cynical commander tries to lead his men back to the German lines amid fighting in forests, trenches and devastated cities, where there is no respite or hope.
The novel originally appeared in 1955 under the title 'Das Geduldige Fleisch'. This paperback edition was published in 1999 and the work was adapted into a film by Sam Peckinpah in 1977.
For readers of historical fiction and war stories set in World War II, with a German perspective on the Eastern Front.
Willi Heinrich was a German author and soldier. During the Second World War he fought in the 101st Jäger Division, which suffered massive losses on the Eastern Front, and his combat experiences inspired his first successful novel, Das geduldige Fleisch (1955), published in English translation as The Willing Flesh in the United Kingdom and as The Cross of Iron in the United States (1956). He later wrote a series of popular genre novels in the 1970s and 1980s.
