The Assist

By Sheldon Cohen

During the days before World War II, two young boys-one Jewish, one German-play football on the same team, little knowing that their paths will cross again on a war-torn battlefield. Max Tepper-The son of Jewish immigrants. Max becomes the target of anti-Semitism at a very young age. Hopeful for a better future, he enrolls in the university, eager to become a physician like his father. But at the outbreak of World War II, things change. Max becomes a partisan fighter and devotes his life to the destruction of Nazism. Erich Baeumler-Personifying Hitler's dream of the perfect German, brown-haired and brown-eyed Erich joins the Hitler Youth at the age of ten. As he becomes more involved with the Nazis, Erich's anti-Semitism grows. After Hitler invades Poland in 1939, Erich is more eager than ever to prove his devotion to the F hrer. Now an officer in the Wehrmacht, Erich's ruthlessness becomes legendary. But on a battlefield on the Russian front, the two come face-to-face again. Will good triumph over evil, or will the bonds of a long-ago friendship remain steadfast and true?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595356273
• ISBN13: 9780595356270
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"