Soldier X

Soldier X by Wulffson, Don L.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780670888634.

As World War II rages, sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt finds himself on a train traveling to Russia. Hes one of the hundreds of thousands of German boys being sent to the Eastern Front by Hitler--since no men are left to fight. Trained as an interpreter and not a soldier, Erik manages to survive the combat, but only by slipping into a dead enemys uniform, and posing as a wounded Russian. Now the young German must keep up his charadeÉ. Soldier X is based on a conversation author Don Wulffson had with a German war survivor. The result is a thoughtful and compelling novel that takes readers inside the mind of a boy who must fight and even die for a war he doesnt believe in.