Little Joe - The Story of Josef Filipovic Surviving in a World at War While Fighting Another at Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781621373445)

Little Joe is the story of Josef Filipovic's youthful struggle to survive in occupied Holland during World War 2. Besides the Nazi oppression everyone lived under, "Josko" was also fighting a battle at home against a more personal enemy. His father, a guestworker in the Dutch coal mines close to the German border, "was bent on destroying me," and treated his son as an Untermensch in his own home. Trying to elude both his enemies, the fifteen year old Josko was captured by the Germans and taken to a forced labor camp at a coal mine in Germany. After surviving two years, he boldly escaped and was picked up by an infantry unit of the American army. Adopted by the tough GI's--and renamed "Little Joe"--he became a soldier fighting the Germans and began the odyssey that would finally end five years later in New York harbor within sight of the lights of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.

Author: Bill Wheatley
ISBN-10: 1621373444
ISBN-13: 9781621373445
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2013
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d