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A Tale of Two Soldiers
Max Gendelman
其他書名
The Unexpected Friendship Between a WWII American Jewish Sniper and a German Military Pilot
出版Salem Author Services, 2013-11-05
主題Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN16265229019781626522909
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qyuZAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A Tale of Two Soldiersais a memoir about the unlikely friendship an American Jewish G.I. and trained sniper for the US Army, formed with a German Luftwaffe pilot during WWII. On Dec. 18, 1944, twenty-one-year-old Max Gendelman was captured in the Battle of the Bulge, one of only a handful in his company to survive. Starving and dazed, his dog tags blown off, he was marched through German villages and eventually arrived at a farm the Reich had commandeered from a German family. The familyOCOs grandson, Karl Kirschner, a lieutenant in the Luftwaffe conscripted against his will, was hiding out in one of the barns. To MaxOCOs astonishment one day Karl spoke to him through the fence; they discovered a shared passion for chess, and began to secretly meet to play the game. As they got to know each other, they recognized what they needed to do; they formed a pact, a plan to escape together. This was the start of a friendship that would endure for more than six decades."