[LM_NET] BOOK: An innocent soldier by Holub

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@GMAIL.COM>]

Holub, Josef. An innocent soldier. Scholastic, 2005 [0-439-62771-0]
Adam is a young farm hand who's farmer suddenly takes him off to town and
enlists him in the army in place of his son.  Adam becomes part of the
Napoleon's "Grande Armee" and it's trek to Moscow.  This 231 page book
describes the horrors of war and that one particularly with soldiers
starving and freezing.  The author describes canon blasting into soldiers.
dead and wounded soldiers all over the ground and how this army had to fend
for itself in this terrible war.  While I had studied this war, the author
put a real human face on it by putting the reader right in the middle of it
-- a powerful book.

-- 
Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School Library
Newton, NJ
mullinator52@gmail.com
My book reviews are compiled at http://www.mullersreviews.com
My book review blog is at http://MullerInTheMiddle.blogspot.com

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