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Gr 8-Up The book begins in 1811 in pre-unification Germany as a farmer enlists his unwitting farmhand, Adam, in Napoleon's "Grande Armé e" under the name of his only son, Georg Bayh. The bewildered teen, who is sure that this great -mistake - will eventually be rectified, trains dutifully despite being continually harassed by a sadistic sergeant. He is saved when a young aristocratic lieutenant needs a servant, and his situation greatly improves. This is a tale of unlikely friends marching from Germany to Moscow with Napoleon's ill-fated invasi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Dragged to a Wurttemburg "recruitment" center in lieu of his master's son, nave orphan farmhand Adam Feuchter, sixteen, joins Napoleon's Grande Armée as one of multitudes of unwilling conscripts from conquered lands forced into his disastrous 1812 Russian campaign. Conditions are anarchic; starving troops forage in ravaged and barren country on the road to Moscow or prey on one another. Adam is unmercifully bullied by h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More