A Soldier's Legacy

1982 novel by Heinrich Böll

By Heinrich Böll

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Created: 1948
Published: 1982
Depicts: Heimkehrer, murder, Eastern Front
Subject: World War II, guilt
Genre: epistolary novel, military fiction
Form: novel, Erzählung
Country of origin: allied-occupied Germany
Language: German
Set in: WWI Eastern Front
instance of: literary work
set in period: 1940s
title: Das Vermächtnis

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Das Vermächtnis

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A Soldier's Legacy (German: Das Vermächtnis) is a novel by German author Heinrich Böll, published in 1982 (translator: Leila Vennewitz). Written in 1948, the narrator writes about his dead friend Schelling, revealing his murder by the hated captain Schnecker.

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