The soldier (Mirko Jelusich)
The Soldier is a historical novel by the Austrian writer Mirko Jelusich about the Prussian general and army reformer Scharnhorst .
The book was first published in 1939 by Speidl publishing house in Vienna. The novel is an example of Jelusich's historical novels about men of power in the sense of nationalist, later National Socialist ideology. The book was extraordinarily successful in National Socialist Germany, had its 100th edition in 1941 and, along with other novels by Jelusich, was one of the bestsellers of the National Socialist era . After the Second World War it was published again in 1972 by the Austrian publishing house Schütz in Oldendorf.
The German administration for popular education in the former Soviet occupation zone ( GDR ) put the book on the list of literature to be segregated in 1947 .