Hans Peter Richter (1) (1925–1993)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1925
- Data de falecimento
- 1993
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Germany
- Local de nascimento
- Cologne, Germany
- Local de falecimento
- Mainz, Germany
- Educação
- University of Hanover
- Ocupações
- author
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Young Adult Historical Fiction - Boy Killed When Not Allowed In Bomb Shelter em Name that Book (Janeiro 2019)
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The time of the young soldiers por Hans Peter Richter
A brief account by a German, a boy of 14 when WWII began: a man of 20, a soldier and officer when it ended. This somewhat disjointed account emphasises the privations endured by the army, the callous cruelty of many of the officers, the disregard for civilian life in a way which made curiously little impression on me. Perhaps the author's detachment rubbed off. It's a long way from being one of the great war books to come out of that conflict,
The story of two young boys growing up as friends in Germany in the early 1930s. One of them is Jewish, and of course their lives take very different paths.
*sigh* I think my mental and emotional tolerance for Holocaust literature is overtaxed. This was a compelling read, but so stark and bleak. And of course in some ways that's only right, but that's *all* this book offered. No hint that there were people trying to help others escape, no commentary on the bleakness at all. I think that if this were a novel written for adults, I'd not have an issue with it, but as a middle school book it just seems too grim and with no payoff for it.… (mais)
*sigh* I think my mental and emotional tolerance for Holocaust literature is overtaxed. This was a compelling read, but so stark and bleak. And of course in some ways that's only right, but that's *all* this book offered. No hint that there were people trying to help others escape, no commentary on the bleakness at all. I think that if this were a novel written for adults, I'd not have an issue with it, but as a middle school book it just seems too grim and with no payoff for it.… (mais)
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- Obras
- 6
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- Membros
- 1,183
- Popularidade
- #21,724
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 20
- ISBN
- 79
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 1