Save the Last Bullet
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Save the Last Bullet

Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Save the Last Bullet

Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army

About this book

Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretense of protecting him. Their real reason was to turn him into cannon-fodder for use against Hitler's enemies. Deployed to the collapsing Eastern Front in the last days of the war, Willi, now aged fourteen, and his schoolmates were ordered to stave off the relentless Russian advance. None were expected to return alive from the final battles of the Third Reich. Yet, against all odds, Willi does survive but his ordeal is far from over. He returns home to find everything he knows destroyed. Numb and confused, he is mandated to serve one year of forced farm labor. After his release, he gradually realizes that all he was taught to believe in was a lie and he sinks into depression. Eventually, thanks to his friendship with a kind British soldier, he begins to heal. It begins to dawn on him that he can play a part to ensure that the evil he witnessed is never repeated. Ultimately, he succeeds by earning the Medal of European Merit in 1979 for his contribution to the advancement of European democracy. Willi's graphic and moving story, told from a Nazi child soldier's perspective, is an inspiring memoir of lost innocence and despair, but also of determination and hope restored.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Master Maps
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Author’s Note
  9. Prologue
  10. Chapter 1 Brenken, August 1934
  11. Part II: The Führer Takes Care of Our Children
  12. Chapter 11 Christmas 1943
  13. Chapter 12 The Hitler Youth
  14. Chapter 13 Military Training
  15. Chapter 14 Schleching
  16. Chapter 15 The SS
  17. Chapter 16 Heldentot
  18. Part III: Total War
  19. Chapter 17 The Last Bullet
  20. Chapter 18 The Retreat
  21. Chapter 19 The Barbed Wire Incident
  22. Chapter 20 The Ceasefire
  23. Chapter 21 The Internment Camp
  24. Chapter 22 The Long Road Home
  25. Part IV: The Aftermath
  26. Chapter 23 The Reunion
  27. Chapter 24 Expectation Meets Reality
  28. Chapter 25 Onkel Franz’s Farm
  29. Chapter 26 The Occupying Forces
  30. Chapter 27 Sunday Mass
  31. Chapter 28 The Bootlegging Incident
  32. Chapter 29 Mischief with Fritz Freudewald
  33. Chapter 30 The Fire Brigade
  34. Chapter 31 Return from the Farm
  35. Chapter 32 Holding Pattern
  36. Chapter 33 The Path Forward
  37. Epilogue
  38. Bibliography