Description
A Tale of Two Soldiers is a memoir about the unlikely friendship an American Jewish G.I. and trained sniper for america Army, formed with a German Luftwaffe pilot throughout WWII.
On Dec. 18, 1944, twenty-one-year-old Max Gendelman used to be captured in the Battle of the Bulge, one of only a handful in his company to continue to exist. Starving and dazed, his dog tags blown off, he used to be marched through German villages and eventually arrived at a farm the Reich had commandeered from a German circle of relatives.
The circle of relatives’s grandson, Karl Kirschner, a lieutenant in the Luftwaffe conscripted against his will, used to be hiding out in one of the most barns. To Max’s astonishment someday Karl spoke to him through the fence; they came upon a shared passion for chess, and started to secretly meet to play the game.
As they got to know every other, they recognized what they needed to do; they formed a pact, a plan to escape together. This used to be the start of a friendship that would endure for more than six decades.