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Soldier X
Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ever thought possible. It's kill or be killed, and it seems clear that Erik's days are numbered. Until, covered in blood and seriously injured, h...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
July 14th 2003
by Speak
(first published March 19th 2001)
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Soldier X tells a courageous story a young boy's experiences during WWII as a German soldier used to question the Russian prisoners of war. Brainwashed under Nazi rule, 16 year old Erik Brandt has no choice but to follow the commands of his superiors. Erik is able to escape the battle by changing into the uniform of a nearby dead Russian. However, during his escape he is shot by a fallen German soldier. He is then taken to a Russian hospital where he becomes acquainted with his nurse, Tamara, a...more
Paul Harrington
Soldier X by Dun Wulferson is a true story. READ: Therefore it does not have the normal plot line of a normal novel! The book is set in WWII during the last part of the war. The book takes place in Germany then Russia then Germany again.
The main character’s name is Soldier X. He is a soldier drafted into the Nazi army at 15. But this is complicated by the fact that he is half Russian. This means he can speak fluent Russian, making him invaluable as an interpreter. However every...more
Soldier X by Dun Wulferson is a true story. READ: Therefore it does not have the normal plot line of a normal novel! The book is set in WWII during the last part of the war. The book takes place in Germany then Russia then Germany again.
The main character’s name is Soldier X. He is a soldier drafted into the Nazi army at 15. But this is complicated by the fact that he is half Russian. This means he can speak fluent Russian, making him invaluable as an interpreter. However every...more
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I'm not a big fan of war books, but there are some boys who want to read nothing else. This 2001 title combines many good elements that make this a great read for your WWII obsessed boys.
Erik is only 16 when he is conscripted into the German army. He's not thrilled, because his grandparents are Russian. He gets sent to the front, and there is some rather graphic fighting. The sad conditions of war are all described-- the filth, the cold and damp, the battles that cause young boys to lose their l...more
Erik is only 16 when he is conscripted into the German army. He's not thrilled, because his grandparents are Russian. He gets sent to the front, and there is some rather graphic fighting. The sad conditions of war are all described-- the filth, the cold and damp, the battles that cause young boys to lose their l...more
the book solder x is about a and young Nazi soldier during World War II. The character’s real name in the book is Erik Brandt. His family immigrated from Russia to Germany during the Bolshevik revolution because they were wealthy and they did not want the Bolsheviks to take all of their money. Their family’s 1st language was Russian and the 2nd was German. When the main character was born his 1st language became German in a 2nd language became Russian similar to many immigrants.
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Read this with my teenage son a few years back. I appreciated the experiences through the eyes of a young German who has been more or less brainwashed by the Nazi propaganda machine (as many Germans were). Sent to the Russian front, he finds himself trapped behind the lines & desperate to survive. Putting on a Russian uniform to blend in, Erik is mistakenly wounded by a fellow German soldier & brought to a Russian field hospital as a "war hero" putting him in precarious circumstances as...more
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The book is about a 16 year old kid named Erik that is fighting for the Germans. During the middle of a battle that he is in he finds himself in a ditch wounded. The only way for him not to get captured by the Russians is to switch clothes with one of the dead Russians in the ditch. After passing out in the ditch Erik wakes up in a Russian hospital. He doesn't know anyone but he is half Russain and can speak some too. When in the hospital he fakes memory lose and pretentends to forget...more
The book is about a 16 year old kid named Erik that is fighting for the Germans. During the middle of a battle that he is in he finds himself in a ditch wounded. The only way for him not to get captured by the Russians is to switch clothes with one of the dead Russians in the ditch. After passing out in the ditch Erik wakes up in a Russian hospital. He doesn't know anyone but he is half Russain and can speak some too. When in the hospital he fakes memory lose and pretentends to forget...more
As any of my blog readers know I am a fan of any book related to WWII or The Holocaust. Soldier X by Don Wulffson is no exception. Soldier X tells the story of Erik Brandt the 16 year old son of a German father and Russian mother. Erik is German by birth, but knows the Russian language a bit of the customs because of his mother and grandparents. Erik is drafted into the German army days before his birthday. He is to be a member of the Die Sprache-HJ, the division of the Hitler Youth that studies...more
The book is about a fifteen year old boy named Erik Brandt that likes to be named X. Before Erik was sent to war he was complainig that he was mistaken for a sixteen year old. Erik was not a Russian he was a German but he was supposed to kill his own people (not the Russians, the Germans). When Erik was on the battlefield he got barbed wires stuck below his knee and he got shot. in the emergency room Erik say a beutiful 15 year old girl named Tamara and was a nurse helping alot of other wounded...more
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I loved Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson. I loved all the action. The war. The emotion. IT was amazing. I also felt bad when Erik, the main character, when he lost all of his friend during the war.
16 year old Erik Brandt was sent to fight in Hitler's army. He's one of the hundreds of thousands of boys being sent to fight because there are no men left to fight. After losing a battle against the Russians, he slips into a dead Russian soldier uniform and leaves the trench he was fighting in. Seeing...more
16 year old Erik Brandt was sent to fight in Hitler's army. He's one of the hundreds of thousands of boys being sent to fight because there are no men left to fight. After losing a battle against the Russians, he slips into a dead Russian soldier uniform and leaves the trench he was fighting in. Seeing...more
Soldier X was a very interesting and thrilling story. The main character is a sixteen year old boy and he is in Hitlers youth. His name is Erik Brandt. He was fighting in a war against the Russians and during the war he got knocked out by a mortar shell. When he woke up he was in a trench with a shard of metal sticking out of his knee and there where Russian soldiers all around him. So he does the unthinkable and gets a Russian uniform and dresses up as a Russian. He used to be a Russian transla...more
1. This boy named Erik Brandt is forced to go and fight with thousands of German boys. Then as he gets to the fight he gets wounded and then finds himself in a Russian camp. He heals there ,but then finds himself thinking which side is the right one to fight for. The Russians or the Germans?
2. Its World War 11 where there is a lot of sorrow and pain. Thousands of people died is this war of keeping to the right. Yes this could happen in a different time period and place. There could be a terrori...more
2. Its World War 11 where there is a lot of sorrow and pain. Thousands of people died is this war of keeping to the right. Yes this could happen in a different time period and place. There could be a terrori...more
Soldier Xby Don L. Wulffson is a terrible book with a dead, dragging plot and undeveloped charaters. Soldier X is about a boy named Erik who is forced to join the Nazi army and fight on the Eastern front. Erik becomes trapped behind enemy lines. He meets many undeveloped charaters and has many conversations with a blank, dull style of speech. The author does allow this story to be historically accurate though. The setbacks Germany and the Soviet Union experienced are historically accurate. T...more
This book is about a boy named Erik Brandt and his struggle to survive in Europe during Hitler’s rule. He was originally a Nazi, but pretended to be a Russian when the Nazi’s lost a battle. He falls in love with Tamara, a nurse, in the hospital he’s recovering in. When the hospital is attacked, he and Tamara decide to find a way to America and escape the war. The plot in unforgettable and original. Lots of intense build up. Takes place in different areas of Europe. Realistic settings based on re...more
I thought that Soldier X by Don Wulffson was a very good book. It is about a sixteen year old boy named Erik that is drafted into the German army as Germany is going on the defense against the allied forces. While fighting, he is wounded badly, and has to try to find a way to stay alive. He sees a Russian boy and changes clothes. Luckily Erik's half Russian so he know the language fluently. He is sent to a Russian hospital, but that is only half of his adventure. I liked this book because it tau...more
Soldier X, by Don Wulffson, is a great book that shows what life was like in a realistic way for soldiers in WWII. A young German soldier who is half Russian is chosen to fight for the Nazis in a great theme plot of friendship, love, and sorrow. This book shows in a great way the life of young German soldiers. The plot is very credible because it was based on a true story about a man who now lives in Oregon. In addition, the authentic setting of Nazi Germany and even on the front lines of battle...more
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Soldier X is a book about a German soldier, X, who has to make extreme decisions and ends up in a packed Russian hospital. There he meets Tamara and they fall in love while helping care for many wounded Russian soldiers.When the war comes into the town they are in they have to live in the forest for many days, where he finds where his true loyalties lie. There is a great very original plot, this is the only book that I have ever read that is about the Holocaust told by a german soldier. The boo...more
In this book, Soldier X, Erik Brandt, an everyday guy who moved to Germany from Russia, is drafted into the Nazi army. He is deployed into a dismal and malnourished camp badly needing reinforcments and supplies. On his first guard duty their base is attacked and overrun by the soviet union. In a last attempt to live, Erik puts on a russian soldier's uniform hoping the Russians will attend to him. He goes unconcious after being shot by a Nazi survivor thinking he was a russian. He wakes up in a r...more
I am reading this with a group of 6th graders. I have read a lot of WWII literature, and one of the things I enjoy about this genre is the many perspectives the books are written from. I don't think I have ever read one from the point of view of a German soldier. It was a very uneven book, very well written in some parts and not as well written in others. War is graphic and some of the 6th graders find it a little too descriptive. I think there are better written children's WWII books out there,...more
This book is about a person who is about 16 who joins the German army in World War 2. He is part Russian and part German and he used in the German army as a translator because he knows how to speak Russian. He is sent to the Eastern Front (where the Germans were fighting the Russians)and doesn't really know where his loyalty's lie. He is wounded when the Russians attack where he was and he is caught behind enemy lines. He pretends he is a Russian soldier who was hurt and is taken to a Russian ho...more
In the book Soldier X, Erik Brandt is drafted into Hitler’s army to fight for Germany in the year 1944. With themes of survival, this story is told in 1st person narration with a very melancholy tone. Although names, dates, and places have been altered whenever necessary, it has a credible plot through many realistic events. With themes such as survival, the themes emerge naturally from the setting. Although Erik’s name may have been changed, the character was portrayed with very realistic huma...more
You may think this is story about an American soldier fighting against Nazi's in World War II, but you would be completely wrong. This is the story of shy 16 year old boy who enrolls in the German Army during World War II. He learns the horrifying truth of what war is actually like. He sees blood, friends die and Jews in concentration camps. It would be extremely scary if I was put in his position. He isn't really sure about what is going on.
He learns war is a horrible thing and that you shouldn...more
He learns war is a horrible thing and that you shouldn...more
This book was so . . . deep.
It's rare I read a book about the Nazi/Jew war, or that I read historical fiction at all, but when I picked up this, I had to read it.
Eric Brandt (More prefered name: X) is a German soldier at age sixteen, but he gets trapped behind Russian lines. There's no way for him to get back, so he either must kill himself, or pretend to be a Russian Soldier.
Well, X knows Russian because his grandparents are Russian and he becomes part of Russia's army. He is very badly wounde...more
It's rare I read a book about the Nazi/Jew war, or that I read historical fiction at all, but when I picked up this, I had to read it.
Eric Brandt (More prefered name: X) is a German soldier at age sixteen, but he gets trapped behind Russian lines. There's no way for him to get back, so he either must kill himself, or pretend to be a Russian Soldier.
Well, X knows Russian because his grandparents are Russian and he becomes part of Russia's army. He is very badly wounde...more
Soldier X is the type of book that, even for a non-regular reader, catches your attention and makes you read it. The book is based on a 16 year old German-Russian named Erik Brandt. He is forced to join the Nazi military, and fight against the Russians. As the story progresses, he is put to the test with bombings, battles, deaths, and more. He becomes very close to a nurse while he is injured named Tamara. The confusing part is that Tamara is Russian, meaning that Erik is in a Russian hospital,...more
Wow! I loved this book. A great book for junior high and up about a boy who is in the German army during World War II. After his first real battle he finds himself behind enemy lines and must do whatever it takes to stay alive. This book gives a real look into life during the war and what people went through to survive. X meets many people along the way who teach him about compassion during trying times and he also meets those who make him want to hate. I could have read this book in one sitting...more
Based on a true story, this first person narrative of World War II traces the career of a young German with Russian grandparents who is forced into the German army near the end of the war. His experiences fighting the Russians provide vivid, horrifying detail of the carnage of the war. He is wounded, and takes a dead Russian’s jacket, so when Russian forces come through, they assume he is Russian. He recuperates in a Russian hospital and manages to survive, fighting on the Russian side. His extr...more
Erik Brandt.. a half German, half Russian 16 year old boy facing the trials of being in the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) during the intense uprisings of WWII. Erik is lead through some training to be an interrogator and ends up mixed in battle behind enemy lines. The result is a story that leaves the reader begging for more. Intertwined is a love story that develops after Erik injures his knee and goes to the hospital. It adds to the emotional appeal making this an excellent read.
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i liked this book because it was very entertaining. this book takes place in Germany in the of world war II. The 15 year old boy named Eric. He joined the Nazis and fought against the Russians and the Americans. In the mittle of a battle he gets knocked out. When he wakes up he is lying next to a russian soldier so he takes his uniform and puts it on and heads to the russian camp under cover. My favorite quote was when Eric says " are you ok, or do you have another bullet in your head I need to...more
In the book Solider X the narrators perspective changes every frequently depending on the main characters feelings,emotions, or pain.For example if the main character Erik would get flash backs about his past and the narrator would start talking about his feelings emotions. My perspective that is based on my learning is that as I got to know the main character Erik my perspective has changed because towards the end of the book he has changed. For example you doesn't talking a lot, he is always s...more
This is a story of a young boy, Erik Brandt, who is half-German half-Russian who is recruited to fight for Hitler's Youth during World War II. It tells the tale of a 16 year old boy who is caught in a crossfire between Germans and Russians. After being attacked, he must decide whether to continue being a German solider, or to disguise himself as a Russian, in order to survive.
This book is told from the point of view of Erik Brandt. It gives readers a different perspective about World War II, not...more
This book is told from the point of view of Erik Brandt. It gives readers a different perspective about World War II, not...more
If you're looking for a WW2 novel for students, this one would be excellent. Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt, a young German, is called up to the Eastern Front towards the end of the War. He is from a Russian family who immigrated to Germany, so he knows Russian. After the horrible battle of Tarnapol, Erik finds himself behind lines and pretends to be a Russian medic. He and a girl escape and run for the Western front. This is a gripping account of war as seen through the eyes of a teen and the sce...more
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