GERMAN BOY(ISBN=) 英文原版

“I think German Boy has all the qualities of greatness. I love
the book.” — from the Foreword by Stephen Ambrose
    As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of
Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them
was a little boy named Wolfgang Samuel, who left his home with his
mother and sister and ended up in war-torn Strasbourg before being
forced farther west into a disease-ridden refugee camp. German Boy
is the vivid, true story of their fight for survival as the tables
of power turned and, for reasons Wolfgang was too young to
understand, his broken family suffered arbitrary arrest, rape,
hunger, and constant fear.
    Because his father was off fighting the war as a
Luftwaffe officer, young Wolfgang was forced to become the head of
his household, scavenging for provisions and scraps with which to
feed his family. Despite his best efforts, his mother still found
herself forced to do the unthinkable to survive, and her sacrifices
became Wolfgang’s worst nightmares. Somehow, with the resilience
only children can muster, he maintained his youth and innocence in
little ways–making friends with other young refugees, playing games
with shrapnel, delighting in the planes flown by the Americans and
the candies the GIs brought. In the end, the Samuels begin life
anew in America, and Wolfgang eventually goes on to a thirty-year
career in the U.S. Air Force.
    Bringing fresh insight to the dark history of
Nazi Germany and the horror left in its wake, German Boy records
the valuable recollections of an innocent’s incredible journey.

Wolfgang W. E. Samuel was commissioned through
the Air Force ROTC at the University of Colorado and is a graduate
of the National War College. He served in the U.S. Air Force for
thirty years until his retirement in 1985 as a colonel. His writing
has been published in several military journals, including
Parameters, the U.S. Army War College quarterly. He lives in
Fairfax, Virginia.

Illustrations
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
One  January 1945
Two  Flight from Sagan
Three  The Train
Zour  161 Sch6nhauserAllee, Berlin
Five  A Town Called Strasburg
Six  A Brave German Soldier
Seven  The Face of Death
Eight  Surrender
Nine  The Americans
Ten  The Russians
Eleven  Messenger of Death
Twelve  The List
Thirteen  AWinter Nightmare
Fourteen  Summer 1946
Fifteen  Escape to the West
Sixteen  The Trauen Barracks