The Pitiless Wave: A World War II story
By Duane Schrag.
Description
"The Pitiless Wave," a World War II story, was inspired by the experiences of Eduard Giesbrecht Allertl, a German-Russian youth who, with over 200 fellow Mennonites, fought in Hitler’s Waffen-SS. His people had farmed the Ukrainian soil for 150 years, and now they looked for a German victory, their only hope for recovering their collectivized land. (See The Lost Generation by Gerhard Lorenz). In Schrag’s fictionalized composite of several biographies, protagonist Hans Bergen’s unit is engaged in battling the Russians while his family is fleeing west on the Great ...
ISBN(s)
1482030373, 9781482030372
