The Boy Who Went to War

A powerful and true story of warfare and human survival that exposes a side of World War II that is unknown by many—reluctant soldiers forced into battle. This is the story of Wolfram Aïchele, a boy whose childhood was stolen by a war in which he had no choice but to fight. Giles Milton has been a writer and historian for many years, writing about people and places that history has forgotten. But it took his young daughter's depiction of a swastika on an imaginary family shield—the swastika repr