Revision of: Boy soldiers : a personal story of Nazi elite schooling and its legacy of trauma. Cheltenham : The History Press, 2021. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Závada revisited -- The wrong time to die -- Travelling to another country -- The vanished boarding school -- Not a Napola -- Castle Birdsong -- Schooled by barbarians -- The flag is more than death -- Franz and the FLAK -- Glasses and mineral water -- Barrack blues -- Dresden and departures -- Arriving in Sudetenland -- The Battle for Zawada -- Saved by a grenade -- Germanskis on the run -- A long way home -- Epilogue 1: The back-to-front file -- Epilogue 2: The glass cabinet -- Appendix I: List of locations -- Appendix II: List of abbreviations and glossary.
Summary:
"The true, untold story of how Germany's children fought in WWII, through the lens of the author's father and his rediscovered journal"-- Provided by publisher.
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