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Willi Heinrich


Born
in Heidelberg, Germany
August 09, 1920

Died
July 12, 2005

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Willi Heinrich was born in Heidelberg, and during the Second World War he experienced heavy fighting on the Eastern Front with the 1st Battalion 228th Jäger Regiment of the 101st Jäger Division. The same infantry unit featured in Das Geduldige Fleisch (The Willing Flesh; Cross of Iron).
During the war the 101st Jäger Division sustained a seven hundred per cent casualty rate; Heinrich himself was wounded five times.

After the war, Heinrich became a writer. His first novel, In Einem Schloss zu Wohnen, was written over a two year period (1950–1952). It was unpublished until 1976, after Heinrich was an established novelist. His first commercial novel, Das Geduldige Fleisch (The Willing Flesh), was published in 1955, and almost immediately was t
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Cross of Iron

4.18 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — published 1955 — 31 editions
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Crack of Doom

3.81 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1956 — 15 editions
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Gottes zweite Garnitur

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1965 — 9 editions
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Mark of Shame

3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1957 — 19 editions
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Schmetterlinge weinen nicht

2.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1969 — 11 editions
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Allein gegen Palermo

3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions
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In stolzer Trauer

3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings3 editions
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The Crumbling Fortress

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1963 — 13 editions
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Geometrie Einer Ehe

3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1969 — 9 editions
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Traumvogel

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions
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