The Forgotten Soldier

Probably the best ww2 Eastern Front memoirs I've ever read (I have read many real, non-fiction, from Germans, Romanians, Russians).
It succesfully and uniquely combines Remarque (All quiet on the western front) style sensibility and introspection with Sven Hassel style combat scenes (some better than Hassel but also way harder, since there s no “funny” relief here).
Also the hardest and most traumatic ww2 memoirs I've ever read - it requires the reader to take often breaks, so as not to literally burst into tears.
Also probably the best in describing ongoing Ptsd (i mean during the war, not after) and the impossibility to interact with civilians.
Memorable book, but terrible to read (in the traumatic sense, in the literary one it's really writer - not soldier - level, mostly reminding of Remarque).