Unlikely warrior : a Jewish soldier in Hitler's army
Title:
Unlikely warrior : a Jewish soldier in Hitler's army
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:
ISBN:
9780374301422
9780374302771
9781250073709
Publisher:
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2015]
©2006
