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Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler’s Army by Heidi Langbein-Allen & Wilhelm Langbein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretence of protecting him. Their real reason was to turn him into cannon-fodder for use against Hitler’s enemies. Deployed to the collapsing Eastern Front in the last days of the war, Willi, now aged fourteen, and his schoolmates were ordered to stave off the relentless Russian advance. None were expected to return alive from the final battles of the Third Reich.Yet, against all odds, Willi does survive but his ordeal is far from over. He returns home to find everything he knows destroyed. Numb and confused, he is mandated to serve one year of forced farm labour. After his release, he gradually realizes that all he was taught to believe in was a lie and he sinks into depression. Eventually, thanks to his friendship with a kind British soldier, he begins to heal. It begins to dawn on him that he can play a part to ensure that the evil he witnessed is never repeated. Ultimately, he succeeds by earning the Medal of European Merit in 1979 for his contribution to the advancement of European democracy.Willi’s graphic and moving story, told from a Nazi child soldier’s perspective, is an inspiring mem

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Author

Heidi Langbein-Allen & Wilhelm Langbein

Publisher

Pen & Sword Military

Published

2022

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, War & Espionage