Unlikely warrior : a Jewish soldier in Hitler's army / Georg Rauch ; translated from the German by Phyllis Rauch.
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TextPublisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2015]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Revised editionDescription: xxi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0374301425 (hardback)
- 0374302774 (trade paperback)
- 9780374301422 (hardback)
- 9780374302771 (trade paperback)
- Rauch, Georg, 1924-2006
- Jewish soldiers -- Austria -- Vienna -- Juvenile literature
- Jewish soldiers -- Austria -- Vienna
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 940.5413 R241 | Available | 33111008110955 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked underground to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was drafted into Hitler's army and shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry--in spite of his having confessed his own Jewish ancestry. Thus begins the incredible journey of a nineteen year old thrust unwillingly into an unjust war, who must use his smarts, skills, and bare-knuckled determination to stay alive in the trenches, avoid starvation and exposure during the brutal Russian winter, survive more than one Soviet labor camp, and somehow find his way back home. Unlikely Warrior is Rauch's true account of this extraordinary adventure.
Previously published as The Jew with the Iron Cross : a record of survival in WWII Russia. New York : iUniverse, 2006.
"A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"-- Provided by publisher.