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In this memoir of his experiences as a teenage infantryman in the US Third Army during World War II, Kotlowitz brings to life the harrowing story of the massacre of his platoon in northeastern France, in which he--by playing dead--was the only one to survive.

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Combat soldiers' memories are like flames or waves on a beach; they seem the same, but their patterns are always changing. Robert Kotlowitz...has produced...the model for such memories...[A] superb narrative. -- New York Times Book Review His straightforward prose captures both the mundane and the horrific features of a soldier's life, as well as his own teenager's naivete...An unsentimental, honest testament to the individual experience of war--the kind that history overlooks. -- Kirkus Reviews Kotlowitz writes with skill and mordant humor of the infantryman's life, of the incredible instinct to survive, of 'the sounds...never before heard'... His fine memoir belongs on readers' shelves alongside such books as Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers and Paul Fussell's Doing Battle, primary documents of a terrible time. -- Amazon.com This memoir does a superb job of sympathizing with all those puzzled boys, dead well before their time. -- Washington Post Book World

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Robert Kotlowitz (1924-2012) a native of Baltimore and a graduate of Johns Hopkins, worked as Managing Editor of Harper's magazine and for more than two decades as Director of Programming and Broadcasting for WNET in New York. Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981. He's been named one of the Best Voices of the Century as well as a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine. Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist. In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him Audiobook Narrator of the Year. Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams. Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules. Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master's degree in Acting from George Washington University. He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter.

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