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The Boy Who Went to War

Name: The Boy Who Went to War
ISBN: 9781429990585

The Story of a Reluctant German Soldier in WWII

Giles Milton,

353 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

The Boy Who Went to War

The Story of a Reluctant German Soldier in WWII

Giles Milton,

About this book

A powerful and true story of warfare and human survival that exposes a side of World War II that is unknown by many—reluctant soldiers forced into battle.

This is the story of Wolfram Aïchele, a boy whose childhood was stolen by a war in which he had no choice but to fight.

Giles Milton has been a writer and historian for many years, writing about people and places that history has forgotten. But it took his young daughter's depiction of a swastika on an imaginary family shield—the swastika representing Germany—for Giles to uncover the incredible, dark story of his own family and his father-in-law's life under Hitler's regime.

As German citizens during World War II, Wolfram and his Bohemian, artist parents survived one of the most brutal eras of history. Wolfram, who was only nine years old when Hitler came to power, lived through the rise and fall of the Third Reich, from the earliest street marches to the final defeat of the Nazi regime. Conscripted into Hitler's army, he witnessed the brutality of war—first on the Russian front and then on the Normandy beaches.

Seen through German eyes and written with remarkable sensitivity, The Boy Who Went to War is a compelling reminder to us all that civilians on both sides suffered the consequences of Hitler's war.

"Engaging, poignant, and vivid. . . . Offers an illuminating experience of 'ordinary' Germans living in 'small-town Germany'." ? BBC History Magazine

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