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- Until his recent death, Boll was the preeminent chronicler of Germany's agonizing rebirth in the latter 20th century.
- Following the successful release of this book, Boll was invited to attend Group 47’s meeting in 1949...
- About Author: In 1972, Heinrich Böll became the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929.
- Boll was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, ''A Soldier's Legacy'' disappeared with some of the author's other early manuscripts in the confusion after the war.
- Heinrich Böll’s taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to...
- His father’s family, according to Böll, were Catholics who emigrated from England when Henry VIII created his Church of England.
- Böll's early novels dealt with the despair of soldiers' lives, the oppressive cruelties he witnessed in his youth and in military service.
- Heinrich Böll ; translated by Leila Vennewitz.