A Tale of Two Soldiers: The Unexpected Friendship Between a WWII American Jewish Sniper and a German Military Pilot

A Tale Of Two Soldiersais A Memoir About The Unlikely Friendship An American Jewish G.i. And Trained Sniper For The Us Army, Formed With A German Luftwaffe Pilot During Wwii. On Dec. 18, 1944, Twenty-one-year-old Max Gendelman Was Captured In The Battle Of The Bulge, One Of Only A Handful In His Company To Survive. Starving And Dazed, His Dog Tags Blown Off, He Was Marched Through German Villages And Eventually Arrived At A Farm The Reich Had Commandeered From A German Family. The Familyocos Grandson, Karl Kirschner, A Lieutenant In The Luftwaffe Conscripted Against His Will, Was Hiding Out In One Of The Barns. To Maxocos Astonishment One Day Karl Spoke To Him Through The Fence; They Discovered A Shared Passion For Chess, And Began To Secretly Meet To Play The Game. As They Got To Know Each Other, They Recognized What They Needed To Do; They Formed A Pact, A Plan To Escape Together. This Was The Start Of A Friendship That Would Endure For More Than Six Decades.