Das Gesamtwerk.

Das Gesamtwerk (German Edition) by Wolfgang Borchert. 1988 hardcover published by Rowohlt. Text in German. Wolfgang Borchert, who fought on the Eastern Front in the German army in World War II, was later captured by the Allies on the Western Front, and after the war escaped from a prison camp and walked back home some 300 miles, wrote a number of stark, unblinking stories and plays before his too early death at the age of 26.