Bibliograph

The miracle typist, the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home, Leon Silver

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The miracle typist, the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home, Leon Silver

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The miracle typist

Responsibility statement

Leon Silver

Sub title

the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home

Summary

Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler's ground and air forces are bearing down on his country, Jew Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz. However, when the Luftwaffe's bombs start falling and the Polish cause looks hopelessly lost, Tolek finds himself under fire from his supposed brothers in arms. The Polish army is rife with anti-Semitism and he is relentlessly tormented. As the Germans cross the border, he is faced with a terrible dilemma: flee to protect his family - and risk being shot as a deserter - or ride out the war, hoping rumours of women and children being spared in the concentration camps are true. What follows is an odyssey that will take Tolek from a Hungarian internment camp, where his ability to type spares him from the frontline, on to Palestine, Beirut, Egypt, Tobruk and Italy. A broken telegram from Klara, ending with the haunting words, 'We trouble', pushes him to the brink

Target audience

adult

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