What do you think?
Rate this book
In stolzer Trauer
271 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1970
2 people want to read
About the author
Willi Heinrich
58 books30 followersWilli 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 It was unpublished until 1976, after Heinrich was an established novelist.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 translated into English and published as The Willing Flesh (1956), by Weidenfield & Nicolson in the United Kingdom, and as Cross of Iron (1957), by Bobbs-Merrill in the U.S. To date, the novel remains in print, and is his most well known outside of Germany.
Though he began his writing career writing about the German experience in World War II, Heinrich later concentrated on writing melodramatic romances in the 1970s and 1980s. Willi Heinrich passed-away in 2005.
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 It was unpublished until 1976, after Heinrich was an established novelist.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 translated into English and published as The Willing Flesh (1956), by Weidenfield & Nicolson in the United Kingdom, and as Cross of Iron (1957), by Bobbs-Merrill in the U.S. To date, the novel remains in print, and is his most well known outside of Germany.
Though he began his writing career writing about the German experience in World War II, Heinrich later concentrated on writing melodramatic romances in the 1970s and 1980s. Willi Heinrich passed-away in 2005.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
September 12, 2018
This is a dispassionate and almost documentary like account of the final stages of the war in an area East of Germany at the end of 1944. The novel reads almost like minute by minute account of events. Even so , the actions of the characters define them and give an insight into their motivations and fears. A great read that depicts the war end from the German perspective.
Read
August 19, 2021Sad,deeply sad
July 7, 2024
Das Buch ist vom 2. Weltkrieg. Nicht meine Sache, aber wer so was gerne liest, gäbe "In stolzer Trauer" wahrscheinlich 5 Sterne.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews