Captured by the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, Heinrich Gerlach wrote a novel based on his experiences. In 1949, however, the KGB confiscated his 600-page manuscript. Gerlach resorted to hypnosis to remember his narrative, and in 1957 it was published as The Forsaken Army. In 2011 Carsten Gansel, an academic, made a sensational find in a Moscow archive: the original manuscript of the novel. Includes the story of Gansel's sensational discovery.