Guy Sajer is the author of The Forgotten Soldier. As an inhabitant of Alsace he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at age 16 and fought in division Grossdeutschland. After the war he wrote about his war time in the book The Forgotten Soldier. Also he became a writer of comic books under the pseudonym Dimitri. One called "Kursk Tourmente d'Acier" is about the battle of Battle of Kursk from view of a German foot soldier.