| Booktalk
#1
Erik Brandt leaves Germany
for the Russian front on his 16th birthday. The glorious war is no
longer going well for the Germans. So many have died that boys are
taking the place of men on the front lines. Erik is being sent to
Russia as a translator, but soon finds himself trapped with death all around
him. He is wounded and trying to play dead so the Russians won't
shoot him. When the opportunity arises, Erik trades uniforms with
a dead Russian and allows himself to be taken to a hospital as a Russian
soldier. Based on a true story, we see the horror that was WWII and
the face of someone who did not believe in the Nazi cause and followed
his own principles as best he could. (Mary Huebscher, Librarian, Holy Cross
of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX marwood45@hotmail.com)
Booktalk #2
Erik Brandt was the kid that
got the name X from the Nazis when he was in World War 2 he was actually
a German soldier but was wounded. So he killed a Russian and took his cloths
for he could get health medication for all of his wounds. He was afraid
that he was going get caught and get put in prison by the Russians. He
got wounded in the gut from a German soldier when he saw the enemy cloths
he shot. Will he survive? Does he make it home? Will he be caught and taken
prisoner of war? (Sam Gulliver, Mansfield High School student) |
