# The Train Was on Time

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- Authors: [Heinrich Böll](https://www.bookquiver.com/heinrich-boll)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4137-039-1
- Published: 2019-04-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five days. As he hurtles towards his death, he reflects on the chaos around him - the naïve soldiers, the painfully thin girl who pours his coffee, the ruined countryside - with sudden, heart-breaking poignancy. Arriving in Poland the night before he is certain he will die, he meets Olina, a beautiful prostitute, and together they attempt to escape his fate. . .