'The Cross of Iron' by Willi Heinrich follows the story of Corporal Steiner, soon to be reinstated to Sergeant, who commands a platoon of ten men left behind in a retreat in the Crimea. The small group of characters must navigate through battles, including a final one inside a factory, where they face chaotic military action scenes and encounter random events that lead to unexpected deaths. The book delves into the hell and confusion of battle, filled with emotion and questioning by fully realized characters, while also exploring the feud between Steiner and the antagonist, Stransky, which builds throughout the novel.
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Content warnings include graphic violence, death, trauma related to war, and potentially distressing themes associated with conflict and survival.
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Death Struggle…
Tough Sergeant Steiner commanded ten men, a German rear guard trapped fifty miles behind the Russian line. Their path to survival led straight through the entire enemy army. All the murderous hazards of war blocked their march-hunger, exhaustion, terror, treachery, death. Finally, Steiner and his men were no longer fighting for Führer or Fatherland, but for their naked, desperate lives…
Acclaimed throughout Europe, The Cross of Iron has been hailed by American critics as "far more monumental than All Quiet on the Western Front" and "savagely powerful." One of the great war novels of all time, it is a memorable, magnificent portrait of the modern centurion-a towering drama of the death throes of a mighty army.
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