by Hans Hellmut Kirst · Editorial Berenice · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496756922
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«El sargento Asch va a la guerra» is the war novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst, published by Editorial Berenice in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Promoted to sergeant almost without wanting it, Asch fights on the Russian front during the Second World War. In the garrison there is a corporal with shady dealings, a lieutenant in love with a curious woman, and a captain who appropriates a truck of chorus girls. With irony, Asch survives absurd orders and portrays human hopes and miseries.
Second instalment of the «08/15» saga (Gunner Asch series), originally published in 1954.
For fans of satirical novels and historical war fiction.
Hans Hellmut Kirst was a German novelist and the author of 46 books, many of which were translated into English. Kirst is best remembered as the creator of the "Gunner Asch" series which detailed the ongoing struggle of an honest individual to maintain his identity and humanity amidst the criminality and corruption of Nazi Germany.
