Gerhardt B. Thamm Boy Soldier (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Boy SoldierCondition: NewSubtitle: A German Teenager at the Nazi TwilightEAN: 9780786431113ISBN: 9780786431113Publisher: McFarland & Co IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/28/2007Description: "As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war. My fight was neither noble nor heroic. I saw the horrors that no 15-year-old boy should ever see. I came into war purely by happenstance, and survived it purely by luck." Gerhardt B. Thamm grew up on his grandfather's farm in Lower Silesia, the hinterlands of Germany. In early 1945 this land, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, became a battleground. The Soviets captured Lower Silesia in February, and Thamm, like many of his Hitler Youth high school classmates, was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of World War II, experiencing firsthand fearsome barbarity and atrocity. Thamm's family was deported from Silesia in 1946 to West Germany. Gerhardt Thamm arrived in the United States in 1948. The 17-year-old Thamm joined the U.S. Army the same year and served more than 20 years as an enlisted man. "Maybe, just maybe, I fought in this war to escape the barbarity. Maybe I wrote this book to still the memories." Language: EnglishAuthor: Gerhardt B. ThammGenre: HistoryTopic: Military History, BiographyISBN-10: 0786431113Country/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 263gRelease Year: 2007 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Boy Soldier

Title: Boy Soldier

Subtitle: A German Teenager at the Nazi Twilight

EAN: 9780786431113

ISBN: 9780786431113

Release Date: 02/28/2007

Release Year: 2007

Genre: History

Topic: Biography

ISBN-10: 0786431113

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Number of Pages: 188 Pages

Publication Name: Boy Soldier : a German Teenager at the Nazi Twilight

Language: English

Publisher: Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

Subject: Cultural Heritage, Europe / Germany, Military / World War II, Military

Publication Year: 2007

Item Height: 0.4 in

Item Weight: 9.3 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Gerhardt B. Thamm

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback