In your hands is a book opening a new series of "Wehrmacht Divisions on the Eastern Front." This series is intended not only and not so much to acquaint the reader with the history of Wehrmacht formations during the Second World War, although in itself it is very interesting. The main task set by the publisher is to introduce a new word into the historiography of the Great Patriotic War. It is no secret that there are still many gaps in this area. The 98th Infantry Division is a typical Wehrmacht infantry formation that has gone through a long and difficult combat path, starting with a rather simple campaign in France and ending with the tragic pages of the defeat in Crimea in the spring of 1944, and then captured by the allied forces in Italy. On foot, the division measured thousands of kilometers of foreign land, abundantly watering it with German blood. The author of the book, former division commander General Martin Garais, nevertheless does not wonder what the German soldier did in distant lands, where he was not at all welcome. Accustomed over the past decades to some romanticization of the Wehrmacht, the reader will be surprised to learn that from the very first days of the war with the Soviet Union, the Germans realized that the easy walk was over, that already in August 1941 the German infantry suffered heavy losses, that 98th division (like many other Wehrmacht infantry divisions) changed several compositions due to losses and only missing in its lists there were more than 4 thousand people. The Soviet soldier, whom M. Garais calls generalistically "Bolshevik" and understands as a faceless gray mass, nevertheless more than once arouses, if not admiration, then surprise of the author with his resilience, perseverance and self-sacrifice.