And Where Were You, Adam

This impressive little book has 9 stories that are loosely connected. Main character is a German soldier called Feinhals and the stories mostly deal with the latter days of the war in Hungary and how the Germans cope. There's a lot of death and disaster, mostly through stupid accidents. A stray bomb unfortunately detonates, a woman is shot because she sings beautifully but is a blond, catholic jew (which is incomprehensible for one soldier). Feinhals himself also reaches a bitter end, much like in "Das Boot". Good book, also good to read about the German side of the second world war, and B?ll was a soldier on the eastern front himself.