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World War II is raging, and sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt sits on a train traveling east - one of the hundreds of thousands of German boys being sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front. Few men are left to fight, so boys are now being thrown into Hitler's war. Though trained as an interpreter, not a soldier, Erik soon finds himself on the front lines, struggling not to surrender to his fear as other soldiers die all around him. It seems to Erik that the only way to survive is to kill. But what choice is there? Based on the true story of a German war survivor, Sodier X is a thoughtful and compelling novel that takes readers inside the mind of a boy who must fight and possibly die for a war he doesn't believe in.
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