Many people wonder if Guy Sajer, author of The Forgotten Soldier, is a real person or just a fictional character. In fact, Guy Sajer does not have a pen name. He was born as Guy Monminoux in Paris on January 13, 1927. At the age of 16, while living in Alsace, he joined the German army. Hoping to hide his French origin, Guy enlisted under his mother's maiden name, Sajer. After the war, Guy returned to France where he became a well-known cartoonist, publishing comic strips about World War II under the pseudonym Dimitri. The Forgotten Soldier is not a book about the tactics and strategy of the German Wehrmacht during World War II. Nor does it analyze Nazi ideology and philosophy. Instead, it depicts the life of a typical teenage German soldier on the Eastern Front. And through this examined life, the reader receives a first-hand account of the atrocious nature of war. Sajer's book depicts the reality of combat in relation to the human physical, psychological and physiological condition. Guy Sajer was a half-German, half-French teenager who joined the Wehrmacht in order to be part of something magnificent. He began his novel at the Chemnitz barracks on July 18, 1942 in the hope of becoming a JU-87 pilot. After failing the Luftwaffe's mandatory tests, he was sent to basic training in the infantry. Although Sajer describes life in the infantry as less fun, his morale is high. He receives a brand new uniform and first class boots and soon becomes his first comrades. Sajer claims to be exhausted due to severe physical difficulties, but he is overcome by a feeling of joy that he cannot understand. However, it will not be long before he suffers numerous atrocities that will force him to ... middle of paper ...... at that time, whose memories, fears and enthusiasms should not be recalled. "So, contrary to the title, this remarkable war memoir is not about a single soldier. Rather, it refers to the entire German army that was defeated by the Allies. Although the German cause was highly controversial, these gentlemen fought bravely for their country died, many were maimed and many others had to live forever with the atrocities they faced. However, at the end of the war, they were simply ". forgotten” for their failure And although The Forgotten Soldier is an astonishing account of the horrors of war In infantry warfare, it serves a much more important purpose It allows the historian to take a look. on the German experience and to realize that they too were young men fighting because their nation called upon them, and that they deserve to be remembered for such a courageous act..