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A Tale of Two Soldiers: The Unexpected Friendship Between a WWII American Jewish Sniper and a German Military Pilot by Max Gendelman (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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''A Tale of Two Soldiers'' is 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 family's grandson, Karl Kirschner, a lieutenant in the Luftwaffe conscripted against his will, was hiding out in one of the barns. To Max's 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 kw 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.

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Publisher
Two Harbors Press
ISBN-10
1626522871
ISBN-13
9781626522879
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189945489

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Format
Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Trade Paperback (US), Paperback / Softback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Author
Max Gendelman

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Date of Publication
05/11/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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by kvusFTKLSi2@Del...30 Mar, 2016
Read this in one day!
I know the Gendelman family all of my life, but learned much about them I did not know. I heard vague references about Max's days in captivity, but it was painful to read his account. The tale brings out the best and the worst in humanity!
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