Tortured Earth

As the corporal stuffed the loose dirt into the exhaust pipe of the tank he realized how futile his effort was, but it gave him enormous satisfaction anyway-somehow he was striking back. The runner kept fingering the leaflet in this pocket, the leaflet guaranteeing him safety if he deserted the enemy, and wondering in his terror what to do. The counter-offensive for hill 608 had failed, and the company was almost totally wiped out. The major had ordered the attack knowing it to be hopeless, in a mood of revenge, for he had just learned his wife and daughter had been killed.With the enormous power of a human soul profoundly outraged by the calculated inhumanity of war, Gert Ledig has pounded out the most shattering novel of World War II...The Tortured Earth was first published in Germany, where it became an immediate bestseller and was received by all critics, without reservation, as "e;the best novel of the war."e; One reviewer wrote: "e;Ledig's book is at one and the same time brutal and sensitive, cold and immensely sympathetic, raw and yet hopeful."e;

As the corporal stuffed the loose dirt into the exhaust pipe of the tank he realized how futile his effort was, but it gave him enormous satisfaction anyway-somehow he was striking back. The runner kept fingering the leaflet in this pocket, the leaflet guaranteeing him safety if he deserted the enemy, and wondering in his terror what to do. The counter-offensive for hill 608 had failed, and the company was almost totally wiped out. The major had ordered the attack knowing it to be hopeless, in a mood of revenge, for he had just learned his wife and daughter had been killed.With the enormous power of a human soul profoundly outraged by the calculated inhumanity of war, Gert Ledig has pounded out the most shattering novel of World War II...The Tortured Earth was first published in Germany, where it became an immediate bestseller and was received by all critics, without reservation, as "e;the best novel of the war."e; One reviewer wrote: "e;Ledig's book is at one and the same time brutal and sensitive, cold and immensely sympathetic, raw and yet hopeful."e;