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By James P. Gannon
Rappahannock News Writer
Wolfgang Samuel was 10 years old in 1945 when Nazi Germany was collapsing.
The Russian army was advancing on the small east German town where he lived with his mother and younger sister. His father, a Luftwaffe officer, was away fighting. The little boy’s world was coming apart, plunging him into years of fear, flight, and desperate living conditions in post-war refugee camps.
The youth’s harrowing tale of struggle and survival is told in a compelling new memoir, “German Boy: A Child in War.” Its author, who not only survived his ordeal but immigrated to America to become a colonel in the U.S. Air force, will discuss and sign his book next week at the Old Sperryville Bookshop on historic Main Street in Sperryville.
Col. Samuel will speak at the bookshop and sign copies of his memoir on Friday, Oct 26 at 7:30 p.m. As space is limited, this will be a ticketed, by-reservation event only. Tickets are available at the bookshop or by calling 540-987-8444.
The most remarkable thing about “German Boy” is the vivid and detailed reconstruction of events exactly as they happened—not as if recalled years later by an adult, but as told from the perspective of the boy who lived them. The book is written in the voice of that boy, with all the innocence, wonder and naivete that a child possesses.
“I have been asked how I could remember details, including conversations,
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