In this extraordinary autobiography by Hans H ller, an Austrian born in 1921 near Wiener Neustadt, readers are plunged into an epic journey through the torments of the Second World War. At the age of 20, H ller served as a simple Sch tze of the Afrika-Korps in Egypt at the Col d'Halfaya (described by the British soldiers as the "Pass of Hell Fire") and then in Tobruk, Libya. He was promoted to Lieutenant a year later and in the autumn of 1942 he was...