士兵/Soldier
分類: 图书,进口原版书,人文社科 Non Fiction ,
作者: Don L. Wulffson 著
出 版 社: Oversea Publishing House
出版时间: 2003-7-1字数:版次: 1页数: 227印刷时间: 2003/07/01开本: 16开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 051488006992包装: 平装编辑推荐
作者简介:Don Wulffson is the author of more than forty books including Future Fright and The Upside-Down Ship He is the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award for his educational writing and the Leather Medal Award for his poetry He lives in California with his wife and two daughters.
内容简介
Gr 8 Up-In this gritty novel of World War II, 16-year-old Erik Brandt is forced to fight for the emaciated German army, and because of his knowledge of the Russian language, he is sent to the Russian front. The train trip that Erik and the other young men take is symbolic of their transition from child to man. These boys are sent to the front with only a few weeks of basic training and the directions to kill or be killed. After the first battle, Erik makes the life-altering decision to take the uniform of a dead Russian soldier and pretends to be Russian for most of his remaining time as a soldier, surviving serious wounds and finding the love of his life while he recuperates in a war hospital. There he pretends to have amnesia and takes the moniker "Soldier X." When the hospital is attacked, Erik and his girlfriend escape. After a harrowing journey filled with enemy encounters, they find a safe house in Czechoslovakia and eventually make their way to Berlin. The story is framed with a prologue and epilogue from Erik's perspective as an old man, and is full of his angst over killing others and having survived the war. This novel, which is based on a true story, will find an audience among readers who are not put off by the horrors of war and who would like to read about World War II from a different perspective.-Cheri Estes, Detroit Country Day School Middle School, Beverly Hills, MI Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.