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Before Their Time: A Memoir

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. 208 pp. 15,000 print.

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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