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Summary: SOLDIER X
Review: "If discovered, I would be killed. Even playing dead will not save me; even dead, once found, I would be skewered at the end of a bayonet," says Erik Brandt, in World War Two. This is a quote from Soldier X by Don Wulffson. Erik, also known as X and Aleksandr Dukhanov, starts off as a German translator. After an attack by the Russians, Erik finds himself, injured, behind enemy lines. When Erik pretends to lose his memory, he disguises himself as Aleksandr Dukhanov. At the hospital, Erik falls in love with Tamera, a Russian nurse. When the Germans attack, Erik finds himself with Tamera and some of his friends, lost in the forest. Will they find saftey? Will they die? Find out by reading the book.
Soldier X has many great descriptions and sensory images. There are many times in the book, where the author talks about battle fields in beautiful description. He talks about "broken, life-size rag dolls, laying dead on tanks." Wulffson also talks about many injured soldiers lying in a hospital. I recommend this book to anyone who is insterested in World War Two and war stories. I would expecially recommend this book to boys and girls ages 11 to 13. I hope you read Don Wulffson's Soldier X. Come join the adventure of a World War Two soldier!
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Summary: The greatest struggle of the war -- staying alive
Review: "Soldier X" chronicles the experience of a young man, Erik Brandt, who, having barely turned 16 has been conscripted into the Nazi army in the last, frantic year of World War II. By this time, Germany is losing ground on both the Western and Eastern fronts, and Hitler and the Nazis are throwing whatever "manpower" they can into the war machine in order to try deny the inevitable. As the officers remark, these are children being sent out as cannon fodder, ill-equipped, and barely trained to hold a weapon, much less go out to battle. The main goal for most of these kids is to try to get home alive, though everybody knows that there will be many, many who will never get to do that. Although it's illegal, Erik takes a chance to "blend in" as an Russian soldier -- thanks to the uniform of a dead Russian boy, and his proficiency in the Russian language due to his mother's family's influence. This book made for a good read. The first part of it dealt with Erik's experiences as a Nazi conscript. As someone who has done a fair amount of reading on WWII, I know the situation there was desperate, but something in this part of the book rang a little bit hollow. Maybe it was the fact that in trying to mention all the horrors that were going on, it felt like instead of Erik exactly experiencing everything, it was more of an introduction to the many horrible things happening on the Eastern front for somebody who wouldn't know anything (or very little) about it. However, this was just a minor detraction. The book really took off in part two, describing Erik's experience impersonating a wounded Russian soldier, and his and Tamara's journey westward across Europe in the final, insane days of the war. Although billed as a work of fiction, the author claims that this novel is based on a true story, and that certain names and events were changed for the sake of the book. This story is certainly compelling enough that if it is true, it would be interesting to learn more about real story behind the book.
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Summary: Soldier X Review
Review: Erik Brandt was drafted into the German Army. He was from Russia but moved to Germany when he was young. He does not know a lot of information about what is going on in the world. He finds out for the first time that Jews are being brutally treated. He did not know what was happening when they were being removed from his town. He was sent to the front lines to fight. He was separated from the rest of the Germans after shrapnel had hit him. He was the only German around so he found a dead Russian Soldier and changed into his uniform and cut holes where he had been hit by shrapnel. He went to a Russian hospital and was treated. He could speak some Russian so he did not talk a lot to escape the chance of getting discovered. When he was released from the hospital he went back to fight for his country in the war they were loosing. For the rest of the story you should read the novel which I recommend to people who like to read about actual events with fictional stories. Although it is a war novel it has a lot of meaning to it about loyalties. I would not recommend this book to people who do not like gore. This book is appropriate for people ten and up. I think that it is more a book for males. I thought that this was an excellent book. It is only 226 pages so it does not drift off of the subject. I like how the mood is described in great detail so that I can feel like I am actually there. I think that this book is a good book because it has meaning instead of complete books about things that will never happen.
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Summary: Good, but innaccurate
Review: First, on the cover of the first Scholastic printing version it has a picture of a soldier that doesn't resemble a German soldier at all. Secondly, the book states on pages 63-64 that he counted out his four shots from his semiautomatic Mauser and later four more without reloading. The Germans used a 5 shot bolt action Mauser 98k! The author must have made the grievous error of confusing the American semiauto 8 shot M1 Garand with the German Mauser 98k. Besides that, the story is rather good, just don't use it as any type of non-fiction source.
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Summary: Soldier X
Review: I loved the book Soldier X. First of all this book had a great plot. The ending of this book was very suprising. Last but not least but not least this book had a great theme about the horrors of World War 2. I think that the best part of the book was when X was in the frontline of the war in Germany. He was sent from the stationary bunker in the heavily guarded area, to the front lines to face the enemy head on. It was the time in the story when most of his friends died, except for one which he never saw again. One time in the story that was most vivid was when X saw his friends die. It was the way that he explained it, just seemed very graphic. Like one time heard an artillary round coming so they all ducked. When they all got up he saw his friend dead.
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Summary: Soldier X
Review: If you like horror and rescue, danger and love, then this book is definetly for you. Eric, at age 16 learns the feelings of these subjects in this wonderful book. Not only is this book exciting and suspensful, but it is also based on a true story, and to me that just makes it a whole ton better.
At age 16, Eric is drafted into the war. World War Two that is and on Germany's side. The awful Nazis side. The sad part is is that Eric doesn't even agree or believe it is right what the Germans are doing to the rest of the world. But he really has no choice. On the way he confronts feelings and emotions of confusion, sights of young friends screaming and dying, and the physical pain of the torture of war burning your skin.
Later on(not giving the story away), Eric meets a young girl...can you conclude the rest?
Overall, this book should be rated a 5 out of 5 in everyones mind. Unles you hate war and death. But for those who do...Have fun.
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Summary: Soldier X
Review: Imagine bullets flying past your head, machine gun shells hitting the ground, land mines going off at every second.
Erik Brandt, a young boy, half Russian and half German, trapped behind enemy lines wearing dead mans clothes, has experienced all thses things in the action packed book Soldier X by Don Wulffson.
Erik Brandt is fighting for Germany and he is on an old rusty train to go to World War Two. While on the train Erik hears high level bombers deep in the dust. The other soldiers on the train call him X when the train came to a stop and X jumped out. He was under heavy fire, later on after the battle X switches clothes with an enemy soldier, X is now trapped behind enemy lines. Can X get back alive?
This realistic-fiction novel, Soldier X, is an action packed war book full of excitment, for example one part in the book when X gets attacked by tanks and other enemy soldiers. X has nothing to do except throw grenades at tanks and shoot his rifle. The book has a lot of different and dangerous situations.
I liked this book a lot because it had action and a little suspense because you don't know if X is going to live or die. Its a really good book and it is not boring.
Soldier X is a great book, If you love action and a dash of suspence and a touch of mystery then Soldier X by Dont Wulffson is the book for you!-- By Matt
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Summary: Soldier X
Review: IT WAS A GOOD BOOK. THE STORY HAD A LOT OF FACTS. SOLDIER X IS GOOD FOR KIDS AND ADULTS TO READ. I WOULD RECOMMEND ANYONE TO READ THE BOOK. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED ON WWII YOU WILL FIND SOLDIER X IS AN AWESOME BOOK.
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Summary: Soldier X Review
Review: Soldier X by Don Wulffson is a suspenseful book about World War II and the different countries involved in the war. Erik Brandt, the main character, is also called X. Wulffson writes a great story about courage and bravery when Brandt is forced into the Nazi army and is later put into Russian hands.
When Russians invade the German camp, Brandt becomes stuck under a tank with a dead Russian soldier. Brandt speaks Russian fluently, because of his family background, and soon becomes this Russian soldier so no one recognizes him as the enemy. In the hospital Brandt is being taken cared of, he receives his nickname, X, from a man in the bed next to him. Over the weeks X meets new people and really becomes a Russian. When the hospital is bombed, both X and Tamara, a lovely nurse X is in love with, must flee for their lives.
Wulffson does an excellent job explaining the hardships they go through together. By reading this book, not only do you learn about things you might not have known about World War II, but you also learn some of the German and Russian languages. I believe this book may be a little too depressing or descriptive for some, but otherwise I found it to be a very interesting book, full of new facts and trivia.
I think this book is directed towards a more mature audience because of the topics discussed. This was another superb book by Don Wulffson who has already won the Distinguished Achievement Award for his educational writing. Soldier X is a historical fiction book that parallels many German soldiers during World War II on the Eastern Front.
In this serious but suspenseful and even entertaining novel we can learn more about the hardships of World War II.
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Summary: Sad, But Good
Review: Soldier X by Don Wulffuson is a wonderful book. It makes the horrors of war standout strongly, almost everyone dies. When you are about to like someone boom their dead. Don also put a great love story in the plot. I don't reccomend this book for young readers, of all the death and the way Eric(the main Character) describes the way his friends die.It has a strange twist near the end that might make you cry.This book makes you think about your loyalty to your country, and might even make you uncomfortable.This book(in my opinion) is not good for young readers, or people who don't like violence or blood.It's educational too, you learn about gangrene , and at the end you might know some Russian or German.All in all this is an extraordinary book, with many subjects and issues you don't feel comfortable with.
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