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Frauenbataillon.
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- GenresFiction
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First published January 1, 1983
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Heinz G. Konsalik
572 books83 followersHeinz G. Konsalik (pseudonym of Heinz Günther) was a German novelist.
Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, for instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (The Mutilated Face), which deals with a German soldier's recovery after his sledge ran over a personnel mine and destroyed his face, and how this affected his relationship with his wife at home. It places no judgment on the German position in the war and simply deals with human beings in often desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German military law.
Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted into a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold of his 155 novels made him the most popular German novelist of the postwar era and many of his novels were translated and sold through book clubs. He is buried in Cologne.
Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, for instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (The Mutilated Face), which deals with a German soldier's recovery after his sledge ran over a personnel mine and destroyed his face, and how this affected his relationship with his wife at home. It places no judgment on the German position in the war and simply deals with human beings in often desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German military law.
Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted into a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold of his 155 novels made him the most popular German novelist of the postwar era and many of his novels were translated and sold through book clubs. He is buried in Cologne.
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December 3, 2015
Interesante y amena visión novelada del enfrentamiento entre Rusos y Alemanes en la IIGM, con la peculiaridad de que las protagonistas en el bando soviético son tiradoras de élite y mujeres de armas tomar (nunca mejor dicho).
Muy bueno.
Muy bueno.
August 14, 2024
Ein Meisterwerk. Der 2. Weltkrieg aus deutscher und russischer Sicht. Sinnlos, wie jetzt, 2023, am Donez etc., es sich alles wiederholt.
"Menschlichkeit! Ein Gruselwort! Eine toedliche Drohung! Die groebste Beleidigung gegenueber dem Leben! Drei Worte aber wird man, wie immer, aussparen, weil sie unertraeglich revolutionaer fuer einen Politiker sind: Bruder-Schwester-Mensch! Es wird mir immer unbegreiflich bleiben, warum das so ist. Warum der Mensch nie lernt, mit der ihm verliehenen Gnade des Denkens auch etwas anzufangen!".
"Menschlichkeit! Ein Gruselwort! Eine toedliche Drohung! Die groebste Beleidigung gegenueber dem Leben! Drei Worte aber wird man, wie immer, aussparen, weil sie unertraeglich revolutionaer fuer einen Politiker sind: Bruder-Schwester-Mensch! Es wird mir immer unbegreiflich bleiben, warum das so ist. Warum der Mensch nie lernt, mit der ihm verliehenen Gnade des Denkens auch etwas anzufangen!".
November 13, 2018
A great read!
January 10, 2017
Un bellissimo romanzo di guerra e d'amore: ancora una volta Konsalik lascia il segno
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March 18, 2019A good Konsalik read.
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