Summary Of The Book 'Soldier Boys' By Dean Hughes

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ction Soldier Boys is a nonfiction book written by Dean Hughes. It was published in 2001, it is a book that was written about two boys during war time. There are two settings in this book, each of them are at the training camps where both of the characters are training. The main idea of this book is that two boys that wanted to be war heroes realize when they get there that it is nothing like they heard of it being like.
Dieter, a fifteen year old German soldier, is going into war even though his parents don’t want him to. He has no idea what real war is going to be like and he thinks that Germany has done no wrong no matter what the other, elderly soldiers tell him, he doesn’t believe it. The other boy, Spence, is sixteen and he drops out

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