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by Don Wulffson ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2001
Almost 16 years old in 1944, Erik Brandt finds himself on a German troop train headed for the Eastern Front in Russia. Because his mother was born in Russia, he is bilingual and has volunteered to be an interpreter. What he and his fellow teenaged recruits find is that they are thrown into the front line of a battle near Tarnapol as part of an infantry division. Wounded in the trenches, Erik changes clothing with a dead Russian soldier and finds himself in a Russian field hospital feigning amnesia and constantly worrying about his Russian accent. In the weeks that follow, he gains assurance and friends and proves useful as an orderly. He is almost comfortable and less apprehensive until the moment that he spills hot oil on himself and cries out in German. The young Russian girl who hears him, Tamara, says nothing, and later becomes his companion as together, on foot, they flee a German offensive. Walking west through the Ukraine, facing danger and starvation, they use their increasingly effective survival skills and miraculously are taken in by a Czech woman who lives alone in her grand, war-damaged estate. Erik and Tamara grow to love each other and she stays faithful to him even as he is seriously wounded by American soldiers. Based on the lives of the author and his wife, this harrowing tale opens and concludes with the words of the adult Brandt. It is a compelling, graphic, and bloody depiction of war from the viewpoint of a raw recruit who is neither a Hitler fanatic nor a convert to communism. He simply and movingly records the daily horrors of living in a battlefield and his determination to survive and live freely. (Historical fiction. YA)
Pub Date: March 1, 2001
ISBN: 0-670-88863-X
Page Count: 244
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 2001
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A delightfully captivating swatch of autobiography from the author of Kiss. Kiss, Switch Bitch and many others. Schoolboy Dahl wanted adventure. Classes bored him, there was work to be had in Africa, and war clouds loomed on the world's horizons. He finds himself with a trainee's job with Shell Oil of East Africa and winds up in what is now Tanzania. Then war comes in 1939 and Dahl's adventures truly begin. At the war's outbreak, Dahl volunteers for the RAF, signing on to be a fighter pilot. Wounded in the Libyan desert, he spends six months recuperating in a military hospital, then rejoins his unit in Greece, only to be driven back by the advancing Germans. On April 20, 1941, he goes head on against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Athens. On-target bio installment with, one hopes, lots more of this engrossing life to come.
Pub Date: Oct. 1, 1986
ISBN: 0142413836
Page Count: 209
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: Oct. 16, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 1986
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SOLDIER X. by Don Wulffson ‧RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2001. bookshelf. shop now. amazon. Almost 16 years old in 1944, Erik Brandt finds himself on a German troop train headed for the Eastern Front in Russia. Because his mother was born in Russia, he is bilingual and has volunteered to be an interpreter. What he and his fellow teenaged recruits ...
This is an extremely easy-to-read book. It is relatively short and would make an exceptionally good story for high school students to read and discuss among themselves if led by an enthusiastic ...
Soldier X. Mass Market Paperback - July 14, 2003. by Don L. Wulffson (Author) 4.6 228 ratings. See all formats and editions. Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more ...
Seen in his Russian uniform, a dying German commander shoots Soldier X and he goes down. Within minutes as a Russian speaking imposter, Soldier X is hauled off by Russian infantry for immediate medical aid as a heroically wounded fighter. After surgery, he finds himself in a Russian hospital nursed back to health by a young nubile Russian girl.
Soldier X. Soldier X is a young adult war drama book written by Don Wulffson about a half- German and half- Russian boy named Erik Brandt who joins the Wehrmacht, Hitler 's army, during World War II. The book tells about the war from the perspective of Erik Brandt as he leads a life as both a German and a Russian, as well as the ways in which ...
Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ever thought possible. It's kill or be killed, and it seems clear that Erik's days are numbered.
Soldier X. Don L. Wulffson. Penguin Young Readers Group, 2001 - Young Adult Fiction - 240 pages. Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ever thought possible.
Mass Market Paperback - July 14 2003. by Don L. Wulffson (Author) 4.6 208 ratings. See all formats and editions. Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ...
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Soldier X. Don L. Wulffson. Viking Children's Books, $16.99 (240pp) ISBN 978--670-88863-4. Wulffson (Point Blank; The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle) poses haunting questions of allegiance, not ...
SOLDIER X. Don L. Wulffson, . . Penguin/Speak, $6.99 (227pp) ISBN 978--14-250073-6. A WWII veteran and teacher is deemed a hero by his students, but he confides in readers that he fought for the ...
Overview. Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ever thought possible. It's kill or be killed, and it seems clear that Erik's days are numbered.
Books. Soldier X. Don Wulffson, Don L. Wulffson. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2003 - Juvenile Fiction - 240 pages. Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than ...
Soldier x, written by Don L. Wulffson, and published July 2006 by Penguin publisher is an exciting historical fiction chapter book about a half Russian-German, German soldier that must switch identities to survive in World War II torn Europe. Soldier X is a book that grabs the reader and takes him or her through a unique descriptive journey ...
Trained as an interpreter and not a soldier, Erik manages to survive the combat, but only by slipping into a dead enemy's 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 ...
Soldier X is a young adult novel by Don Wulffson about a young man of German/Russian heritage and his harrowing tale of posing as a Russian soldier during WWII. Near the end of World War II, Adolf ...
Work Description. Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ever thought possible. It's kill or be killed, and it seems clear that Erik's days are numbered.
Soldier X. Library Binding - July 14, 2003. by Don L Wulffson (Author) 4.6 232 ratings. See all formats and editions. Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than ...
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Soldier X. Hardcover - March 19, 2001. by Don L. Wulffson (Author) 4.6 228 ratings. See all formats and editions. As World War II rages, sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt finds himself on a train traveling to Russia. He's one of the hundreds of thousands of German boys being sent to the Eastern Front by Hitler--since no men are left to fight.
Summary. The novel Soldier X takes place during World War 2. A boy named Erik Brandt lives in the country of Germany but is half Russian. He speaks very fluent Russian so he is used as an interpreter for the German army. During the war he is put out in front lines. He gets knocked out and after awhile he is awaken to the Germans being overrun.
Soldier X. Paperback - January 1, 2002. by Don L Wulffson (Author) 4.6 228 ratings. See all formats and editions. Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ...