Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Eighteen in 1942

K.J. McCall
4.56/5 (9 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
In February, 1945, 350 captured U.S. soldiers were taken from a German POW camp and transported by cattle car to Berga, slave-labor camp for European Jews. Inspired by this shocking and little-known event, K.J. McCall weaves fact and fiction in a story that begins in a small Pennsylvania town in September, 1941 when America is still at peace and much of the world is already at war. Corbin O’Connell is then just a high school senior, stuck on the family farm, snared by the conniving Velma, hopelessly in love with Daisy, his best friend’s girl. All he knows of the war is what he sees in newsreels. But everything changes on December 7, 1941, and 1942 finds him standing in line to register for the draft only two weeks after graduation. He’s headed for big trouble and doesn’t know it. To him the war is simply a convenient escape from his troubles and, blind to reality, he’s eager to enlist. But he will see. Far from home, he’s swept up in world conflict, and life veers off in its own mad direction when he’s captured by the Germans. Back then one had no choice in the matter, thrown into the war of all wars just by being born. There was no getting around it – not if you were Eighteen in 1942.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
233 pages
Publication:
2014
Publisher:
JJ Publishers, LLC
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0984558926
ISBN13:
9780984558926
kindle Asin:
B00QSG6MTI

Eighteen in 1942

K.J. McCall
4.56/5 (9 ratings)
Read Download
In February, 1945, 350 captured U.S. soldiers were taken from a German POW camp and transported by cattle car to Berga, slave-labor camp for European Jews. Inspired by this shocking and little-known event, K.J. McCall weaves fact and fiction in a story that begins in a small Pennsylvania town in September, 1941 when America is still at peace and much of the world is already at war. Corbin O’Connell is then just a high school senior, stuck on the family farm, snared by the conniving Velma, hopelessly in love with Daisy, his best friend’s girl. All he knows of the war is what he sees in newsreels. But everything changes on December 7, 1941, and 1942 finds him standing in line to register for the draft only two weeks after graduation. He’s headed for big trouble and doesn’t know it. To him the war is simply a convenient escape from his troubles and, blind to reality, he’s eager to enlist. But he will see. Far from home, he’s swept up in world conflict, and life veers off in its own mad direction when he’s captured by the Germans. Back then one had no choice in the matter, thrown into the war of all wars just by being born. There was no getting around it – not if you were Eighteen in 1942.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
233 pages
Publication:
2014
Publisher:
JJ Publishers, LLC
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0984558926
ISBN13:
9780984558926
kindle Asin:
B00QSG6MTI

More Books

The Thirteenth Child:

Mark deMeza

The American Girl (Maureen Ritter #1)

Eoin Dempsey

Americanata: Three Sisters in Italy, 1938

Becky Fahrig Landrum

A Crop Farmer's Daughter: A heartbreaking emotional page-turner based on a true story

Ioni Goldstein

My Name Is Vittoria

Dafna Vitale Ben Bassat

Marie-Madeleine : World War II Women Spies

Kit Sergeant

Grace (The Shackleford Sisters #1)

Beverley Watts

Coming in Hot (A Piper Harris Mystery, Volume 1)

Deany Ray

A Song of Silence

Steve N. Lee

Blue Waters (Rick Waters #1)

Eric Chance Stone

Snow Creek (Detective Megan Carpenter #1)

Gregg Olsen

29th Street South: A Novel

Nicholas Rogers