Adam and The train

Heinrich Böll

Original title: Wo warst du, Adam?

first published 1951 Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co., 2005 140 pages

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Adam: Hitler's once great army is broken and demoralized, and the end of the war is imminent, yet Jews are still being "evacuated" and soldiers are still being rounded up like criminals and sent to the front. Böll paints war as acts of imbecility, senseless accidents, and bizarre coincidences related only through death. Train: Twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas boards a troop train to Germany to return to the fron...

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Wo Warst Du, Adam? edition · 2005 · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · 140 pages · 9783423008563
Adam and the Train hardcover · 1974 · Peter Smith Pub Inc · 9780844662039
Adam and The train paperback · 1974 · McGraw-Hill · 268 pages

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