The Silent Angel (Cassell Military Paperbacks) - Softcover

'amazing and most eloquent...this gripping novella reads like a sketch for a masterpiece' - The Mail on Sunday; 'This excellent novel is a story of love among the ruins...' - The Sunday Times; 'we are in the hands of a master craftsman' - The Sunday Tribune

For the first time in a single volume, these are two of Heinrich Boll's early novels. The Silent Angel, which was the first novel Boll ever wrote, tells the heartbreaking story of a German soldier at the end of the war, struggling to survive after returning to the ruins of his home town. A Soldier's Legacy is the story of a friendship between two soldiers, shattered by the murder of one of them by his own commanding officer. Together they make a dazzling study of both the horrors of war, and the despair and new-found hope which follows defeat.