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| Author | Willi Heinrich |
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| Original title | Das Geduldige Fleisch |
| Translator | Richard and Clara Winston |
| Language | German |
| Genre | War novel |
| Publisher | Corgi Giant (UK) |
Publication date | 1955 |
| Publication place | West Germany |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
| Pages | 412 pages (Hardback edition) and 368 pages (Paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 753151909 |
The Willing Flesh (German: Das Geduldige Fleisch, 1955) (English translation published 1956) is a novel by Willi Heinrich, chronicling the Eastern Front combat experiences of a depleted infantry platoon during the 1943 German retreat from the Taman Peninsula in the Caucasian coast of Russia.
In the United States, the novel was published in 1956 by Bobbs-Merrill Company under the title Cross of Iron. Thus the 1977 Hollywood film directed by Sam Peckinpah used this title.