Soldier X - Softcover

Wulffson, Don L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142500739 ISBN 13: 9780142500736

Publisher: Penguin USA, 2003

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 07 May 2003 Pages: 240 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Sixteen-year-old Erik andt barely knows what Germany is Fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Of Sent to The Killing Fields of the Eastern Front. he is surrounded by unimaginable sights. more horrific than he ever thought possible. It's kill or be killed. and it seems clear that Erik's days are numbered. Until. covered in blood and seriously injured. he conceives of another way to survive. Filled with gritty and visceral detail. Soldier X will change the way every reader thinks about the reality of war. In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front.

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Product Description:

Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ever thought possible. It's kill or be killed, and it seems clear that Erik's days are numbered. Until, covered in blood and seriously injured, he conceives of another way to survive. Filled with gritty and visceral detail, Soldier X will change the way every reader thinks about the reality of war.

Review:

"With well-researched and meticulously recorded details of life under fire, Wulffson urges readers to look past the outer trappings of the enemy to discover the human being inside the uniform."-Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin USA
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142500739
• ISBN 13: 9780142500736
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 240