What a beautiful book… very well written. I bought the book in Zwickau, Germany on a business trip. I’m so happy that I can read German. How would you translate a beauty such as this:

“Wir fahren ab als mürrische oder gutgelaunte Soldaten, —wir kommen in die Zone, wo die Front beginnt, und sind Menschentiere geworden.”

It’s easy to understand why the book was banned in Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.