Unlikely warrior : a Jewish soldier in Hitler's army

Title:

Personal Author EPSB:

Summary:

"A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front".

Year Published:

2015,

2006

Physical Description:

xxi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Note:

Previously published as The Jew with the Iron Cross : a record of survival in WWII Russia. New York : iUniverse, 2006.

Contents:

Secrets in the attic -- The journey east -- Introduction to the trenches -- The hardest thing -- Marianovka -- the first battle -- According to Haas -- A true Russian winter -- Into Romania -- Long hot summer on the Dniester -- Romanian respite -- The Iron Cross -- The last battle -- In Russian hands -- The events at Balti -- Kiev -- Pushkin's request -- Encounter with a spoon -- The reluctant spy -- The German plot -- Homeward -- Vienna -- End of the odyssey.

Awards:

2017 Spring ASLC review Alberta School Library Council

Personal Subject:

Rauch, Georg, 1924-2006.

Subject:

Soldiers -- Austria -- Vienna.

Jews -- Persecutions.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.

ISBN:

9780374301422

9780374302771