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An Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army

Georg Rauch

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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.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 326 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0374302774

ISBN13:: 9780374302771

kindle Asin:: B00MELK8ZK

An Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army

Georg Rauch

4.08/5 (1341 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 326 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0374302774

ISBN13:: 9780374302771

kindle Asin:: B00MELK8ZK

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