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Author : Tessa Börner
Release : 2005
Genre : Boys
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 609/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis English Girl, German Boy by : Tessa Börner
Download or read book English Girl, German Boy written by Tessa Börner. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfgang Samuel
Release : 2001-10-16
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 244/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis German Boy by : Wolfgang Samuel
Download or read book German Boy written by Wolfgang Samuel. This book was released on 2001-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I think German Boy has all the qualities of greatness. I love the book.” -- from the Foreword by Stephen Ambrose As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little boy named Wolfgang Samuel, who left his home with his mother and sister and ended up in war-torn Strasbourg before being forced farther west into a disease-ridden refugee camp. German Boy is the vivid, true story of their fight for survival as the tables of power turned and, for reasons Wolfgang was too young to understand, his broken family suffered arbitrary arrest, rape, hunger, and constant fear. Because his father was off fighting the war as a Luftwaffe officer, young Wolfgang was forced to become the head of his household, scavenging for provisions and scraps with which to feed his family. Despite his best efforts, his mother still found herself forced to do the unthinkable to survive, and her sacrifices became Wolfgang’s worst nightmares. Somehow, with the resilience only children can muster, he maintained his youth and innocence in little ways–making friends with other young refugees, playing games with shrapnel, delighting in the planes flown by the Americans and the candies the GIs brought. In the end, the Samuels begin life anew in America, and Wolfgang eventually goes on to a thirty-year career in the U.S. Air Force. Bringing fresh insight to the dark history of Nazi Germany and the horror left in its wake, German Boy records the valuable recollections of an innocent’s incredible journey.
Author : Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Release : 2009-10-02
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 823/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis German Boy by : Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Download or read book German Boy written by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel. This book was released on 2009-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir, the voice of innocence is heard. “This is great stuff,” exclaims Stephen E. Ambrose. “I love this book.” In this gripping account, a boy and his mother are wrenched from their tranquil lives to forge a path through the storm of war and the rubble of its aftermath. In the past there has been a spectrum of books and films that share other German World War II experiences. However, told from the perspective of a ten-year-old, this book is rare. The boy and his mother must prevail over hunger and despair, or die. In the Third Reich, young Wolfgang Samuel and his family are content but alone. The father, a Luftwaffe officer, is away fighting the Allies in the West. In 1945 as Berlin and nearby communities crumble, young Wolfgang, his mother Hedy, and little sister Ingrid flee the advancing Russian army. They have no inkling of the chaos ahead. In Strasburg, a small town north of Berlin where they find refuge, Wolfgang begins to comprehend the evils the Nazi regime brought to Germany. As the Reich collapses, mother, son, and daughter flee again just ahead of the Russian charge. In the chaos of defeat they struggle to find food and shelter. Death stalks the primitive camps that are their temporary havens, and the child becomes the family provider. Under the crushing responsibility, Wolfgang becomes his mother’s and sister’s mainstay. When they return to Strasburg, the Communists in control are as brutal as the Nazis. In the violent atmosphere of arbitrary arrest, rape, hunger, and fear, the boy and his mother persist. Pursued by Communist police through a fierce blizzard, they escape to the West, but even in the English zone, the constant search for food, warmth, and shelter dominates their lives, and the mother’s sacrifices become the boy’s nightmares. Although this is a time of deepest despair, Wolfgang hangs on to the thinnest thread of hope. In June 1948 with the arrival of the Americans flying the Berlin Airlift, Wolfgang begins a new journey.
Author : Gerhardt B. Thamm
Release : 2015-09-02
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 328/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Boy Soldier by : Gerhardt B. Thamm
Download or read book Boy Soldier written by Gerhardt B. Thamm. This book was released on 2015-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war. My fight was neither noble nor heroic. I saw the horrors that no 15-year-old boy should ever see. I came into war purely by happenstance, and survived it purely by luck." Gerhardt B. Thamm grew up on his grandfather's farm in Lower Silesia, the hinterlands of Germany. In early 1945 this land, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, became a battleground. The Soviets captured Lower Silesia in February, and Thamm, like many of his Hitler Youth high school classmates, was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of World War II, experiencing firsthand fearsome barbarity and atrocity. Thamm's family was deported from Silesia in 1946 to West Germany. Gerhardt Thamm arrived in the United States in 1948. The 17-year-old Thamm joined the U.S. Army the same year and served more than 20 years as an enlisted man. "Maybe, just maybe, I fought in this war to escape the barbarity. Maybe I wrote this book to still the memories."
Author : Carol Koppenstein
Release : 2009
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 595/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis German Boy by : Carol Koppenstein
Download or read book German Boy written by Carol Koppenstein. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oh my God" I saw a body with no head. I saw the head in another place and I almost stepped on another body. It was a lady. Her neck was full of shrapnel and blood was gushing from it.
