The Forgotten Soldier: Last Three Parts

I finished The Forgotten Soldier today.
The last three parts consisted of:
The Retreat
To the West
The End

One part that really stood out to me was when Sajer told the reader how to read a war story. You shouldn't be sitting comfortably, sipping coffee and waiting to go to work. No, you should be standing, and reading close to the time you would go to bed, so you would be tired, but not tired enough to actually fall asleep. This is the west war book I've read so far.

The Forgotten Soldier: "The Gross Deutschland"

I don't think i can write a mini poem about this section, so I'm not going to try. This section was just...holy sh*t man. All I can say is this: I can sympathize, but I don't think I'll ever understand. That's how war is, right?

Half of the descriptions in the book just don't seem real...it's terrible and powerful at the same time. It's strange reading a book you already know the end of. It's also strange reading from the losing side's point of view...I've never done that before. It's making me see German soldiers in WWII in a different light. Jeez...

The Forgotten Soldier: Russia

Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's big mistake.

Young and old, naive and learned,
Set out to conquer East.
They did not know, did not see:
The Third Reich's final feat.

It took me a minute to come up with that one seeing as nothing really rhymes with East, but I think it's fine as it is. I tried to make a longer poem about some of the events that happened during the invasion, like the Battle of Stalingrad, but I was afraid I would mess it up or something, you know, get my facts wrong. Oh my though, I feel sorry for those guys who fought in Russia during the time, but you gotta do what you gotta do for your country, and that's all the motivation most people need.
WWII was one hell of a war, and I really hope we don't have anything like it ever again...wishful thinking at it's best, I know.

I'm doing my homework!

I've been done with Huckleberry Finn for a while, but I've just now got around to answering some of the prompts (2 to be precise. I need to answer one more and then come up with one or two of my own.) I'm picking the easier ones in my opinion and I've loaded one answer with spoilers. There were tons of funny parts in the book but I couldn't write down them all...:(

In other news I'm reading a total of two books at the moment: Little Women and The Forgotten Soldier. They're both really good and I'm only about 100 pages into each. I couldn't help laughing when they referred to Russia as Ivan a couple times in the Forgotten Soldier. I finally understand how the guy came up with that name now...like with keeping up with the Jones'. TFS is a really serious book though, and I know I'll probably never understand the things the guy went through and i hope I never will. But it is helping me learn some German and weapons that were being used in WWII. I think Beth is going to die in Little Women and I will be so sad...she's so sweet and she and Jo are my favorites (along with the mom of course). T_T *sniffle*