Stories from the Front Lines

Follow two young soldiers, destined to be enemies, as they prepare to join their countries' armies and go on to face the realities of war. Their paths will cross at the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle of World War II in which America took part. 

As 17-year-old Helmuth Hubener awaits the executioner, he recalls the actions that led to his death sentence: listening to English language radio and spreading pamphlets in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s. 

When neither of his parents want to take responsibility for him, fourteen-year-old Terry Anders builds a car from a kit and strikes off on a road trip to visit a long-lost uncle. He shares the amazing journey with a couple of Vietnam veterans who teach him that the most important thing in life is to learn all you can. 

This book starts with a bang in an Army emergency room in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. Rebecca, a combat nurse, must face down her own demons and the gruesome memories of war when she returns to the United States.